Help with Ubuntu Wifi... : Othor Games

» Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:48 am

I had posted in the Linux thread but it seems a little dead. I have two problems.

First, I have an old school Compaq Presario C500 that had a corrupt version of Windows 7 Ultimate N. I couldn't find the disk to fix it so I wiped it and installed Ubuntu 13.04.

One issue I'm having is that when I tell the computer to shut down it goes through the motions of shutting down without actually shutting down. It hangs on the Ubuntu screen and does nothing. It's not a huge deal as all I have to do is hit the power button and it turns off. Is there something I have to do?

The second issue is this:

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*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=wl latency=0
resources: irq:18 memory:40400000-40403fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 8
bus info: pci@0000:08:08.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:1b:38:91:fe:44
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half latency=32 link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:16 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d0100000-d01000ff
cindy@CindysLappy:~$ lspci -nn | grep 0280
06:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
cindy@CindysLappy:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 28152 0
ppdev 17073 0
bnep 18036 2
rfcomm 42641 0
bluetooth 228808 10 bnep,rfcomm
wl 3226093 1
snd_hda_codec_conexant 62000 1
i915 600501 3
snd_hda_intel 39619 6
joydev 17377 0
snd_hda_codec 136498 2 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13602 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 97451 2 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
coretemp 13355 0
snd_page_alloc 18710 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
drm_kms_helper 49394 1 i915
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
drm 286028 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
psmouse 95905 0
snd_rawmidi 30180 1 snd_seq_midi
lib80211 14352 1 wl
snd_seq 61554 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
i2c_algo_bit 13413 1 i915
snd_seq_device 14497 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
microcode 22881 0
cfg80211 511019 1 wl
hp_wmi 18048 0
lpc_ich 17061 0
snd_timer 29425 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
sparse_keymap 13890 1 hp_wmi
serio_raw 13215 0
snd 68876 21 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device
soundcore 12680 1 snd
wmi 19070 1 hp_wmi
ext2 72837 1
mac_hid 13205 0
video 19390 1 i915
lp 17759 0
parport 46345 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
ahci 25731 2
libahci 31364 1 ahci
8139too 31887 0
8139cp 27077 0
cindy@CindysLappy:~$ iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.

lo no wireless extensions.

I can not get the WIFI to work. I do not see the BCM4311 Wifi controller/card in the additional software section. I'm not sure how to proceed or what to do to fix this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

» Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:49 am

I dunno Ubuntu and I dunno wifi, but is https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx any help regarding the latter? If not, perhaps a read of the Arch wiki's https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wifi will.

» Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:37 am

I think the quickest way to make the WiFi work would be to use https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper.

And I'm assuming you already asked this question / searched on the Ubuntu forums?

» Sat Oct 05, 2013 8:35 pm

I got WiFi to work. I had to uninstall a file, then install a new one. Then edit a file, save and reboot. I used http://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/how-to-install-broadcom-wireless-drivers guide for the WiFi. Now it's working. But I'm still having the issue with Shutting down and apparently restarting. Ubuntu is a hell of a lot easier to use than SUSE 9.0 was back in the day.

» Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:24 am

Wait, since I fixed the WiFi the shutdown and restart procedure now work.

» Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:36 am

It's quite possible it was choking on something related to the network/driver. Too tired to think more about it .

» Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:56 am

It seemed like it didn't like the OEM drivers from the network card or something. I uninstalled them and tried different ones.

Messing around with my wife's laptop now makes me want to install Ubuntu on my rig. I love the UI and how easy it is do do things. Not to mention how fast it is. It's too bad I'd lose all my windows games. Steam is only showing 16 out of 60 games in the My Games Tab on Ubuntu.