where is my WRAPPER

[GOTHBITES]

Hey  there

I know this might be an easy fix, but  I am having a devil of a time to fix it.  Here is the problem earlier I was having the issue that I couldn't connect to my router if any of the security  setting is turned on WEP,  WPA, WPA2 .  Did I mention it worked before last year 2010-2011.

I have tried to use the windows driver to fix this and this what happen it said that I needed to get files from sourceforge.
So I figured (wrongly of course) That i would just remove and reinstall  all the wi fi packages and start from scratch.  I have since reinstalled three times each time I rebooted and nothing. 

now here are the Specs its an ASUS notebook U50F 500 GB

Processor / Chipset

    Processor Intel Core i3 i3-330M / 2.13 GHz
    Multi-Core Technology Dual-Core
    Cache L2 cache - 3 MB
    64-bit Computing Yes
    Front Side Bus 1066 MHz
    Chipset Mobile Intel HM55 Express

Identification
Vendor: ‎Atheros Communications Inc.

Description: ‎AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)

lspci output

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 06)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 06)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
06:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller (rev 80)
06:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller (rev 80)
06:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller (rev 80)
06:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller (rev 80)
06:00.5 Ethernet controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMC250 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)

uname -a
2.6.38.8-pclos3.pae.bfs

I wanted to try the CLI to reinstall te ndiswrapper

[djohnston]

I wanted to try the CLI to reinstall te ndiswrapper

Why? Open PCLinuxOS Control Center. Network & Internet in the left pane, Set up a new network interface in the right pane. Select Wireless (Wi-fi). Select Use a Windows driver (with ndiswrapper).

[GOTHBITES]

I wanted to try the CLI to reinstall te ndiswrapper

Why? Open PCLinuxOS Control Center. Network & Internet in the left pane, Set up a new network interface in the right pane. Select Wireless (Wi-fi). Select Use a Windows driver (with ndiswrapper).

There is a reason why I have not done as you suggested, and This is why! lol
I had already removed all  wifi packages including dkm and the ndiswrapper

ANYways to make a long story short. I got an error saying that some components are required but are not available email texstar at his gmail account.
the missing component is /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper


aside note
had to modify the message above to make sense

[YouCanToo]

I wanted to try the CLI to reinstall te ndiswrapper

Why? Open PCLinuxOS Control Center. Network & Internet in the left pane, Set up a new network interface in the right pane. Select Wireless (Wi-fi). Select Use a Windows driver (with ndiswrapper).

This is why lol I removed all  wifi packages including ndiswrapper just wanted to show a screenshot

A screenshot of what exactly

[GOTHBITES]

Oops pardon my mess   

Read above I have corrected there is no screenshot now. still  the issue though

[djohnston]

ANYways to make a long story short I got an error saying that some components are required but are not available email texstar at gmail the missing component is /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper

What repository are you using? You need to open Synaptic and install ndiswrapper package.

[GOTHBITES]

Holy Crud!!!

My wired Internet just went out.  right so I did a service -f network it gave me a run down saying the ndiswrapper is gone and then I did modprobe ath9k.  then my Wireless came back on.  so test my luck I have rebooted and service -f network here is the output

service -f network
Shutting down interface eth0:                                                                                [  OK  ]
Shutting down interface wlan0: Failed to kill daemon. (No such file or directory)
                                                                                                             [  OK  ]
Shutting down loopback interface:                                                                            [  OK  ]
Bringing up loopback interface:                                                                              [  OK  ]
Configuring wireless regulatory domain                                                                       [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:                                                                                  [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface wlan0: Line 963: Invalid PSK ''.
Line 963: failed to parse psk ''.
Line 966: WPA-PSK accepted for key management, but no PSK configured.
Line 966: failed to parse network block.
Failed to read or parse configuration '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'.

OK what happen? why is the wireless up and also the lines  I highlighted  are they the reason I can not connect to router that WEP or WPA


 

[GOTHBITES]

ANYways to make a long story short I got an error saying that some components are required but are not available email texstar at gmail the missing component is /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper

What repository are you using? You need to open Synaptic and install ndiswrapper package.

I am using the yamagata repo

also im looking at the repo and according to synaptic I have not one wifi package installed whats the command to see what is being used.

rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no

iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

vboxnet0  Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: C0:C1:C0:D9:B4:FC
                    Channel:1
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 06)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 06)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
06:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller (rev 80)
06:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller (rev 80)
06:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller (rev 80)
06:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller (rev 80)
06:00.5 Ethernet controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMC250 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)

                   Quality=70/70  Signal level=-36 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    ESSID:"Not Your X2"
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                    Mode:Master
                    Extra:tsf=00000000263a7aa6
                    Extra: Last beacon: 849876ms ago
                    IE: Unknown: 00144E6F7420596F7572732042697463686573205832
                    IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
                    IE: Unknown: 030101
                    IE: Unknown: 2A0100
                    IE: Unknown: 2F0100
                    IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
                    IE: Unknown: 2D1AFE181BFFFF000001000000000000000000000000000000000000
                    IE: Unknown: 3D16010D1600000000000000000000000000000000000000
                    IE: Unknown: 4A0E14000A002C01C800140005001900
                    IE: Unknown: 7F0101
                    IE: Unknown: DD860050F204104A0001101044000102103B000103104700104FB2ABD952F97C4A902EB46F9F0D1402102100074C696E6B7379731023000D4C696E6B7379732045333230301024000776312E302E30301042000234321054000800060050F20400011011000D4C696E6B737973204533323030100800022008103C0001031049000600372A000120
                    IE: Unknown: DD090010180202F0040000
                    IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00

[djohnston]

This is why lol I removed all  wifi packages including ndiswrapper just wanted to show a screenshot

ANYways to make a long story short I got an error saying that some components are required but are not available email texstar at gmail the missing component is /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper

I still can't figure out what you're getting at. You say you "removed all wifi packages including ndiswrapper". Then you say,

also im looking at the repo and according to synaptic I have not one wifi package installed whats the command to see what is being used.

Well, didn't you remove those packages? 

[GOTHBITES]

This is why lol I removed all  wifi packages including ndiswrapper just wanted to show a screenshot

ANYways to make a long story short I got an error saying that some components are required but are not available email texstar at gmail the missing component is /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper

I still can't figure out what you're getting at. You say you "removed all wifi packages including ndiswrapper". Then you say,

also im looking at the repo and according to synaptic I have not one wifi package installed whats the command to see what is being used.

Well, didn't you remove those packages? 

YES I have removed all things wi fi including the broadcom and madwifi and yet as the above outputs show I am using wifi even.  I have already tried lspci, and iwlist scan, rfkill list all.

Is there anything else to determine what I am using now on the wifi  thank you so much

[Hootiegibbon]

GOTHBITES,

Just to confirm what your ACTUAL query is...

you have wireless ability despite having removed (for some reason) ndiswrapper and madwifi

the AR9285 is covered by the native ath9k kernel module, no need to ndiswrapper or madwifi

open a terminal (you MAY need to su to root) and type

lsmod |grep ath

It should report back that ath9k is in use

Jase

[GOTHBITES]

GOTHBITES,

Just to confirm what your ACTUAL query is...

you have wireless ability despite having removed (for some reason) ndiswrapper and madwifi

the AR9285 is covered by the native ath9k kernel module, no need to ndiswrapper or madwifi

open a terminal (you MAY need to su to root) and type

lsmod |grep ath

It should report back that ath9k is in use

Jase

lsmod |grep ath
ath9k                  76883  0
mac80211              189461  1 ath9k
ath9k_common            1545  1 ath9k
ath9k_hw              269082  2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath                    11547  2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
cfg80211              126787  3 ath9k,mac80211,ath

here is the outputs

[Hootiegibbon]

GOTHBITES,

Just to confirm what your ACTUAL query is...

you have wireless ability despite having removed (for some reason) ndiswrapper and madwifi

the AR9285 is covered by the native ath9k kernel module, no need to ndiswrapper or madwifi

open a terminal (you MAY need to su to root) and type

lsmod |grep ath

It should report back that ath9k is in use

Jase

lsmod |grep ath
ath9k                  76883  0
mac80211              189461  1 ath9k
ath9k_common            1545  1 ath9k
ath9k_hw              269082  2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath                    11547  2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
cfg80211              126787  3 ath9k,mac80211,ath

here is the outputs

That shows you are using the native ath9k kernel modules for your wireless?

So long as you can get on line - whats the issue again?


Jase

[GOTHBITES]

Here is the problem earlier I was having the issue that I couldn't connect to my router if any of the security  setting is turned on WEP,  WPA, WPA2 .  Did I mention it worked before last year 2010-2011.

and Oh yes I was wondering if these are the source of the problem

Bringing up interface wlan0: Line 963: Invalid PSK ''.
Line 963: failed to parse psk ''.
Line 966: WPA-PSK accepted for key management, but no PSK configured.
Line 966: failed to parse network block.
Failed to read or parse configuration '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'.

The issue is still connectivity able to use wireless is nice,however the reason I started this is because I can not connect to any secure router

[Hootiegibbon]

Bringing up interface wlan0: Line 963: Invalid PSK ''

This shows there is no psk in place.

Use PCC > Networking&Internet to remove all listed (in dropdown) wireless connections.

reboot

Then set up a new connection again via the wizard in PCC > Network&Internet, ensur you enter teh password where its required.

ensure that if your router requires that it be in a paring mode (like the orange-livebox) that you activate this prior to starting the connection in PCC.

Jase