Compaq Presario CQ60 having prob. connecting w/wireless [SOLVED]

[frazelle09]

One of the grandchildren punched the on/off wireless button on this thing and we've had a real challenge getting it to work again.  We finally bought another wifi card and installed it, but broke the button ribbon's black connector on the mb in the process.  We thought the button was bad too, so we bought another button and managed to install it.  Then figured out the commands to get the button to turn on (from orange to blue) -- done.  Reinstalled keyboard.  Finally ready to connect wireless but now won't connect.  We are presently connected with ethernet just fine.

Checked the first post of this forum and found i need to insert the output of a bunch of command so...

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lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem (rev 03)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
[root@localhost frazelle09]#


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iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan1     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"INFINITUM3493"
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=17 dBm
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:no key here, no key here.
          Power Management:on


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cat /etc/modprobe.conf
install scsi_hostadapter /sbin/modprobe ahci; /sbin/modprobe ata_piix; /bin/true
install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe ehci_hcd; /sbin/modprobe uhci_hcd; /bin/true
alias eth0 r8169
alias sound-slot-0 snd_hda_intel
options snd-ac97-codec power_save=1
alias pci:v0000168Cd0000002Bsv0000103Csd0000303Fbc02sc80i00 ath9k
alias pci:v000010ECd00008136sv0000103Csd0000360Bbc02sc00i00 r8169
alias wlan1 ath9k
alias pci:v0000168Cd0000002Bsv0000103Csd00003040bc02sc80i00 ath9k

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cat /etc/modprobe.preload
# /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line.  Comments begin with
# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
# this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY
# for old kernel use /etc/modules
fuse
raw1394
sbp2
ohci1394

nvram
evdev
evdev


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cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan1
DEVICE=wlan1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
IPADDR=192.168.1.76
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.1.254
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=35
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
USERCTL=no
DNS1=208.67.222.222
DNS2=208.67.220.220
RESOLV_MODS=no
WIRELESS_MODE=Managed
WIRELESS_ESSID=INFINITUM3493
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=oops, shouldn't be putting in my keycito.
WIRELESS_ENC_MODE=open
IPV6INIT=no
IPV6TO4INIT=no
ACCOUNTING=yes
DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient
NEEDHOSTNAME=no
PEERDNS=yes
PEERYP=yes
PEERNTPD=no


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cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
blacklist ssb

We have 2Wire wireless router.  Would this be sufficient info for a first stab at fixing this thing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Have a great afternoon!  

[Ramchu]

I have the Compaq CQ61 laptop with the same wireless adaptor and have no problem connecting wireless.

After you installed the new card and button did you go into PCC and delete your previous wireless connection
and create a new one ?

[frazelle09]

Ramchu /  thanks for replying!  Yes, we did this as one of our attempts to get it working.  In fact we've done this several times now.

i got another lappy back from a "loan" and am checking the settings for its wifi.  Maybe this will help.  BTW, i can ping my 192.168.1.254.

Have a wonderful afternoon! 

[Ramchu]

frazelle09,

May be something of use to you in this thread.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,95036.0.html

Have a Good Day !
Ramchu

[frazelle09]

Thanks again, Ramchu, for hanging in there.  i was just examining the output from ifconfig and see that eth0 and wlan1 are almost identical and both refer to ethernet???

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ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:2D:B9:5A:75
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:44 Base address:0xa000

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:567 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:567 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:50508 (49.3 KiB)  TX bytes:50508 (49.3 KiB)

wlan1     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 90:4C:E5:20:3B:1E
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Do you suppose this has anything to do with anything?  In fact, when i run ifup wlan1, i get something like "...failed; no link present.  Check cable?"

Have a great evening!  

[frazelle09]

Thanks, Ramchu, for everything.  i decided to try LXDX as a live CD and still had the same problem.  Maybe the card is bad?

Installed the old card that we originally had thought was bad (it was the first item i found as we searched the web for a solution).  We just reinstalled it and BANG! now have wireless again!  Yeah!!

Have a wonderful evening!  and thanks again for helping out.