Hello to all, Have a problem with a very old Dell XPS M1330. The box is 12 years old (2008) and runs Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. It has only been used recently to play frozen bubble as it has a very good keyboard. The problem: It does not pick the wifi. The switch on the side of the box doesn't seem to be working. I have checked the BIOS and both wifi and blue tooth seem to be turned on there (ENABLED). I tried iwconfig which listed the following interfaces and that nothing was wifi capable lo eth1 vboxnet0 I tried sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 up and sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 down which show I can turn the vboxnet0 interface on and off. With it turned on I again tried iwconfig and still there are no wifi capable interfaces. This happens with the Ubuntu that is on this box and with Mint 17 booted from a USB key. Any ideas? Is the wifi internal card dead? old system? Thanks in advance, Take care and be safe J. -- Stripes Theotoky -37 .713869 145.050562
On Tuesday, 14 April 2020 7:46:38 PM AEST stripes theotoky via luv-main wrote:
Have a problem with a very old Dell XPS M1330. The box is 12 years old (2008) and runs Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. It has only been used recently to play frozen bubble as it has a very good keyboard.
From the reviews that sounds like a nice laptop.
The problem: It does not pick the wifi. The switch on the side of the box doesn't seem to be working. I have checked the BIOS and both wifi and blue tooth seem to be turned on there (ENABLED).
I tried iwconfig which listed the following interfaces and that nothing was wifi capable
Did it ever work on Wifi? If so when did it stop working and what changes correlated with that?
I tried sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 up and sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 down
which show I can turn the vboxnet0 interface on and off. With it turned on I again tried iwconfig and still there are no wifi capable interfaces.
Isn't vboxnet0 an interface for Virtualbox VMs? It doesn't look like it would be correlated with Wifi. The command "lspci" can indicate whether hardware is detected. Are wifi drivers loaded? The command "lsmod" should give useful indication.
This happens with the Ubuntu that is on this box and with Mint 17 booted from a USB key.
Any ideas? Is the wifi internal card dead? old system?
We need more information to determine that. One thing to note is that Officeworks has USB Wifi devices starting at $27. So if you can't get the onboard Wifi going it shouldn't cost a lot to buy a USB device to replace it. Such USB devices are really handy to have at any time, so if you buy one and fix the onboard wifi later you probably won't feel like you wasted your money. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
But ubuntu has an add firmware option built into one of the software manager apps. Didn't it exist in ubuntu 10? I'd have thought so. Keith BAINBRIDGE keithrbau@gmail.com +61447 667 468 Sent from my Apad On Tue., 14 Apr. 2020, 19:46 'stripes theotoky' via mlug-au, < mlug-au@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Hello to all,
Have a problem with a very old Dell XPS M1330. The box is 12 years old (2008) and runs Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. It has only been used recently to play frozen bubble as it has a very good keyboard.
The problem: It does not pick the wifi. The switch on the side of the box doesn't seem to be working. I have checked the BIOS and both wifi and blue tooth seem to be turned on there (ENABLED).
I tried iwconfig which listed the following interfaces and that nothing was wifi capable
lo eth1 vboxnet0
I tried sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 up and sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 down
which show I can turn the vboxnet0 interface on and off. With it turned on I again tried iwconfig and still there are no wifi capable interfaces.
This happens with the Ubuntu that is on this box and with Mint 17 booted from a USB key.
Any ideas? Is the wifi internal card dead? old system?
Thanks in advance, Take care and be safe
J.
-- Stripes Theotoky
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Have you tried the latest Ubuntu via a live cd just to test that the WIFI works? 'stripes theotoky' via mlug-au writes:
Hello to all,
Have a problem with a very old Dell XPS M1330. The box is 12 years old (2008) and runs Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. It has only been used recently to play frozen bubble as it has a very good keyboard.
The problem: It does not pick the wifi. The switch on the side of the box doesn't seem to be working. I have checked the BIOS and both wifi and blue tooth seem to be turned on there (ENABLED).
I tried iwconfig which listed the following interfaces and that nothing was wifi capable
lo eth1 vboxnet0
I tried sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 up and sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 down
which show I can turn the vboxnet0 interface on and off. With it turned on I again tried iwconfig and still there are no wifi capable interfaces.
This happens with the Ubuntu that is on this box and with Mint 17 booted from a USB key.
Any ideas? Is the wifi internal card dead? old system?
Thanks in advance, Take care and be safe
J.
-- Stripes Theotoky
-37 .713869 145.050562
-- Mick
Thanks for all the suggestions. Will try and look at each one of them. Problem is with connection speeds of 3.28 download and 0.54 upload there is very little I can do. Take care On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 23:15, Michael Pope <map7777@gmail.com> wrote:
Have you tried the latest Ubuntu via a live cd just to test that the WIFI works?
'stripes theotoky' via mlug-au writes:
Hello to all,
Have a problem with a very old Dell XPS M1330. The box is 12 years old (2008) and runs Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. It has only been used recently to play frozen bubble as it has a very good keyboard.
The problem: It does not pick the wifi. The switch on the side of the box doesn't seem to be working. I have checked the BIOS and both wifi and blue tooth seem to be turned on there (ENABLED).
I tried iwconfig which listed the following interfaces and that nothing was wifi capable
lo eth1 vboxnet0
I tried sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 up and sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 down
which show I can turn the vboxnet0 interface on and off. With it turned on I again tried iwconfig and still there are no wifi capable interfaces.
This happens with the Ubuntu that is on this box and with Mint 17 booted from a USB key.
Any ideas? Is the wifi internal card dead? old system?
Thanks in advance, Take care and be safe
J.
-- Stripes Theotoky
-37 .713869 145.050562
-- Mick
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On Saturday, 25 April 2020 5:34:48 PM AEST stripes theotoky via luv-main wrote:
Problem is with connection speeds of 3.28 download and 0.54 upload there is very little I can do.
3.28megabit download? That's 410KB/s or about half an hour for a CD. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
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