On 6 August 2015 at 01:04, <bri...@aracnet.com> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 23:23:35 -0300 > Beco <r...@beco.cc> wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > Something odd happened today, on my first clean boot of the day. > > (notebook DELL vostro v131) > > > > Simply, no wlan0 at all. > > > > there is often a hardware switch which disables WLAN. > > Is it possible that it's been turned off ? > > lspci should _absolutely_ show it's existence regardless of whether or not > the drivers have been loaded. Either it's off, if it's a separate card > it's come loose/disconnected, or if it's on-board then you probably have a > hardware failure. > > Brian > >
Hi Brian, Thanks for trying to make sense of this mess. This notebook has onboard wifi, no "physical" switch, but a combination of keys FN+F2 that would supposedly turn it on or off. This combination never worked since day one of all older debians I started with, and I never used it. But since you mentioned, I tried some keystrokes, no luck though. Let me put lspci here. Maybe I'm mistaken. lspci shows: # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b5) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b5) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b5) 00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 8 (rev b5) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM67 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) 0b:00.0 USB controller: Texas Instruments TUSB73x0 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller (rev 02) As you can see... No wifi there. I also read carefully lshw again. Nope. Nothing. Thanks, Beco -- Dr Beco A.I. researcher "I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant" -- Alan Greenspan GPG Key: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x5A107A425102382A Creation date: pgp.mit.edu ID as of 2014-11-09
