Wireless Network setting in Mint

anilmint · 01-28-2015, 01:49 AM

I am totally new to Linux. However, considering the many advantages of the operationg comparing to other OS, i have decided to go ahead with using MINT Rebacca which is the latest version. Initially for some time i did not have any issues in getting my internet connecton. However, for the last one week I am unable to connect through. The results of various terminal commands i applied is given below with a sincere trust somebody would be there to help me out.
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anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementn
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr f8:a9:63:90:62:b1
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:10689 (10.6 KB) TX bytes:10689 (10.6 KB)
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr f8:a9:63:90:62:b1
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:10689 (10.6 KB) TX bytes:10689 (10.6 KB)
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 07
serial: f8:a9:63:90:62:b1
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8106e-1_0.0.1 06/29/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:57 ioport:4000(size=256) memory:b5600000-b5600fff memory:b5400000-b5403fff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0a:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 9c:ad:97:5b:16:45
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=3.13.0-37-generic firmware=0.37 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:16 memory:b5510000-b551ffff
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ lshw -C
Hardware Lister (lshw) - B.02.16
usage: lshw [-format] [-options ...]
lshw -version
-version print program version (B.02.16)
format can be
-html output hardware tree as HTML
-xml output hardware tree as XML
-short output hardware paths
-businfo output bus information
options can be
-class CLASS only show a certain class of hardware
-C CLASS same as '-class CLASS'
-c CLASS same as '-class CLASS'
-disable TEST disable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. )
-enable TEST enable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. )
-quiet don't display status
-sanitize sanitize output (remove sensitive information like serial numbers, etc.)
-numeric output numeric IDs (for PCI, USB, etc.)
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
1: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
2: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:5776 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 12d1:1505 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E398 LTE/UMTS/GSM Modem/Networkcard
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 24ae:2000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ sudo lsusb
[sudo] password for anil:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:5776 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 12d1:1505 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E398 LTE/UMTS/GSM Modem/Networkcard
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 24ae:2000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
Wth regards
Anil Kumar

yooy · 01-28-2015, 05:43 AM

according to this thread you need to know your kernel version and change it.