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MichaelJohn

Wireless Connection Icon Has Gone

Post by MichaelJohn »

I have been running happily with WiFi on an HP 255 G3 laptop since installing Mint 13 10 day ago. Suddenly today I have no WiFi Connection and the 'Wireless Connection' has disappeared totally from 'Network Connections' accessed by Adminstration->Network! If I go via the icon on the bottom panel it tells me I was last connected to the DrayTek earlier today. I have tried installing the driver (as originally done during installation) to no avail and am unsure where to go now! mintWifi gives:-

$ mintWifi
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 168c:0036 (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d0:bf:9c:0c:59:f6
inet addr:10.0.0.30 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::d2bf:9cff:fe0c:59f6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:415 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:164749 (164.7 KB) TX bytes:63262 (63.2 KB)
Interrupt:78 Base address:0x4000

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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:380 (380.0 B) TX bytes:380 (380.0 B)

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* V. querying DHCP...

Thanks for any help/ideas...
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Re: Wireless Connection Icon Has Gone

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Hello, MichaelJohn.

Please, open a terminal window. Execute the following commands and post the complete screen output for each command here.
  • Concise sysem overview including the network interfaces, their states and the drivers in use:

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    inxi -Fxz
  • Is any wifi adapter blocked, soft or hard?

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    sudo rfkill list
    (It will not kill anything, only "list".)
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MichaelJohn

Re: Wireless Connection Icon Has Gone

Post by MichaelJohn »

Hi Karl I have run the commands and psted the resukts below.Another odd thng I noticed this morning is that the sound card is now working and it never has before! Thanks for your interest.

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HP-255-G3 mjh # inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: HP-255-G3 Kernel: 3.2.0-74-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.6.3) 
           Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: HP 255 G3 Notebook PC version: 096B100000405F00051660181
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 21F7 version: 52.2F Bios: Insyde version: F.23 date: 09/04/2014
CPU:       Quad core AMD A4-5000 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 11977.5 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz 3: 800.00 MHz 4: 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini [Radeon HD 8330] bus-ID: 00:01.0 
           X.org: 1.11.3 drivers: ati,vesa (unloaded: fbdev,radeon) tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root 
Audio:     Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
           Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Device 9840 driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:01.1
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.24
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller 
           driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
           Card-3: Atheros usb-ID: 0cf3:3121
           IF: N/A state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (19.0% used) 1: /dev/sda HGST_HTS545050A7 500.1GB 0C 
Partition: ID: / size: 28G used: 8.5G (33%) fs: ext3 ID: /home size: 422G used: 80G (20%) fs: ext4 
           ID: swap-1 size: 10.00GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0C mobo: 20.0C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 200 Uptime: 6 min Memory: 777.2/3010.9MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.6.3 Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.33 
HP-255-G3 mjh # sudo rfkill list
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
HP-255-G3 mjh #
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