Bt4-Final -> Bt4-R2: Wlan0 Issue. No such device.

[m0gg3]

Hello!

I've updated from bt4-final to bt4r2 and after that, my wifi won't work.

It worked correctly before after I did /etc/init.d/networking start and /etc/init.d/wicd start.

But now, I only get:

wlan0: Error while getting interface flags: No such device
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright...*
All rights...*
For more info, ...*

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up wlan0.
done.

I've searched the forum and I guess I tried almost everything!
Eth0 works fine. It connects and I get ip from dhcp.

I will update the post soon with some command outputs!



Thanks,
Mogge.

[Archangel-Amael]

Just use the command line and try to connect that way. Paste your commands and output. Further having info on your card may help.

[m0gg3]

Hi, will try to connect from command line. First, here is some information.

It's a LG-X120 laptop with a RTL8187SE wireless card built in.

A side note is, I've read some and to my understanding, this card could cause some trouble, specially in the new r2? May not be right.

Anyway, I've used the same setup before, with Ubuntu 8, and did great with aircrack so I know it HAS worked before at least

lspci

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller (rev 22)

lshw (Sorry if i should or could left some part of this one out, but wasn't sure)

bt
    description: Notebook
    product: X120-L.C76BV
    vendor: LG Electronics
    version: Not Applicable
    serial: 908KSDW000162
    width: 32 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 smp-1.4 smp
    configuration: administrator_password=disabled boot=oem-specific chassis=notebook cpus=1 frontpanel_password=unknown keyboard_password=unknown power-on_password=disabled uuid=8054BA34-5C65-0010-B1D0-E810DF8645BB
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: Xenia2
       vendor: LG Electronics
       physical id: 0
       version: Not Applicable
       serial: Not Applicable
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
          physical id: 0
          version: PUMASF10 (06/25/2009)
          size: 103KiB
          capacity: 960KiB
          capabilities: isa pci pcmcia pnp upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect edd acpi usb biosbootspecification
           *-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
                logical name: eth0
                version: 02
                serial: 00:e0:91:3c:c1:fe
                size: 100MB/s
                capacity: 100MB/s
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd 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=full ip=192.168.89.10 latency=0 link=yes module=r8169 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
        *-pci:1
             description: PCI bridge
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1c.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.2
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
           *-network UNCLAIMED
                description: Network controller
                product: RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller
                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
                version: 22
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
                configuration: latency=0
        *-usb:0
             description: USB Controller
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd
        *-usb:1
             description: USB Controller
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd
        *-usb:2
             description: USB Controller
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd
        *-usb:3
             description: USB Controller
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.3
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd
        *-usb:4
             description: USB Controller
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.7
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm debug bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0 module=ehci_hcd
        *-pci:2
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1e
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
             version: e2
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
        *-isa
             description: ISA bridge
             product: 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
        *-ide
             description: IDE interface
             product: 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
             logical name: scsi2
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list emulated
             configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
           *-disk
                description: ATA Disk
                product: Hitachi HTS54501
                vendor: Hitachi
                physical id: 0.0.0
                bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/sda
                version: PBBO
                serial: 090608PB5B00QCGKGPAG
                size: 149GiB (160GB)
                capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=0007a5fe
              *-volume:0
                   description: Windows NTFS volume
                   physical id: 1
                   bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,1
                   logical name: /dev/sda1
                   version: 3.1
                   serial: 4c88e051-6320-9e44-90c3-53ff550267c1
                   size: 10001MiB
                   capacity: 10001MiB
                   capabilities: primary bootable ntfs initialized
                   configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2010-10-30 00:33:42 filesystem=ntfs label=System state=clean
              *-volume:1
                   description: Extended partition
                   physical id: 2
                   bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,2
                   logical name: /dev/sda2
                   size: 139GiB
                   capacity: 139GiB
                   capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
                 *-logicalvolume:0
                      description: HPFS/NTFS partition
                      physical id: 5
                      logical name: /dev/sda5
                      capacity: 10001MiB
                 *-logicalvolume:1
                      description: HPFS/NTFS partition
                      physical id: 6
                      logical name: /dev/sda6
                      capacity: 118GiB
                 *-logicalvolume:2
                      description: Linux filesystem partition
                      physical id: 7
                      logical name: /dev/sda7
                      logical name: /
                      logical name: /dev/.static/dev
                      capacity: 10001MiB
                      configuration: mount.fstype=ext3 mount.options=ro,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=0,data=writeback state=mounted
                 *-logicalvolume:3
                      description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
                      physical id: 8
                      logical name: /dev/sda8
                      capacity: 1004MiB
                      capabilities: nofs
        *-serial UNCLAIMED
             description: SMBus
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             configuration: latency=0

If theres any more output just yell it out


Thanks

[m0gg3]

root@bt:~# iwconfig wlan0 essid *****
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.

Can't get much further there. Tried also with stopping networking first. Everything I try gets "No such device".

The only thing I can't manage to try is I've found some drivers that need to execute

./makedrv
./make install

But always when compiling, I get error at ./makedrv so I can't get any further there either.


Thanks

Hey!

I got it up and running. It was a driver issue. Found some drivers from google that I compiled and installed. Just searched for rtl8187se linux driver and there it was. Thought I already tried all of them, but missed this one.

However, new problem.

It all works now, great, BUT when booting up, the "Configuring network interfaces..." takes very long! 1,5-3 minutes.

Any idea why?


Thanks

[Renek]

Update your boot defaults so it doesn't run the networking start script. It tries to start each network connection listed in /etc/network/interfaces and then make a dhcp request. So it makes the request, waits, makes another, waits, times out then onto the next interface, etc. This is what causes the delay in startup.

[mat521]

Hey!

I got it up and running. It was a driver issue. Found some drivers from google that I compiled and installed. Just searched for rtl8187se linux driver and there it was. Thought I already tried all of them, but missed this one.

However, new problem.

It all works now, great, BUT when booting up, the "Configuring network interfaces..." takes very long! 1,5-3 minutes.

Any idea why?


Thanks

you can try config the etc/network/interfaces there start with dhcp or not... and please, post where you find the drivers for rtl8187se for BT4-R2 I cant fix it.
Thanks

[DaveH]

Hey!

I got it up and running. It was a driver issue. Found some drivers from google that I compiled and installed. Just searched for rtl8187se linux driver and there it was. Thought I already tried all of them, but missed this one.

However, new problem.

It all works now, great, BUT when booting up, the "Configuring network interfaces..." takes very long! 1,5-3 minutes.

Any idea why?


Thanks

I got same slow boot problem on notebook with RTl8187 card and I simply removed netwotking from boot

update-rc.d networking remove

quite useful sometimes, why not to add "remove" operator into BT4 basic usage page

best
D

[UselessG]

m0gg3
Bt4-Final -> Bt4-R2: Wlan0 Issue. No such device.

Hello!

I've updated from bt4-final to bt4r2 and after that, my wifi won't work.

It worked correctly before after I did /etc/init.d/networking start and /etc/init.d/wicd start.

But now, I only get:
Code:
wlan0: Error while getting interface flags: No such device
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright...*
All rights...*
For more info, ...*

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up wlan0.
done.
I've searched the forum and I guess I tried almost everything!
Eth0 works fine. It connects and I get ip from dhcp.

I will update the post soon with some command outputs!


hi ! m0gg3 can you teach my step by step how to solve this ( no such device ) problems . i try to download some driver for my Atheros ar9285 Wireless , but still no working .