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WIFI INTEL Centrino Advanced-N 6200 Not working with UBUNTU 9.10

Asked by ait amrane omar

Hello All,

I have bought last week a SONY VAIO VPCZ11A7E 13" Laptop.
I experienced the following problems when installing KUBUNTU 9.10
1-WIFI does not work. I think that it is a problem of driver module. So someone know where I can find the dedicated module ?
2-Display operates only in 800x600 (frame-buffer). I guess the install does not handle properly the video (nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 330M]).
3-The TouchPad does not work at all.

Thak you

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:nvidia-vdpau/ppa; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-185

This will make the video card run fine. Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

For the touchpad this usually works:

gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub

find the line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

and make it read:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.reset"

Save the new file, close gedit then run:

sudo update-grub

Should be ok.

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ait amrane omar (o-evistel) said : 		#3

Hello Guys,

Unfortunately there is no result after "/etc/default/grub" modifcation an update-grub.
Do you have any other idea ?

Regards
Omar
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Objet: Re: [Question #108360]: WIFI INTEL Centrino Advanced-N 6200 Not working with UBUNTU 9.10

Your question #108360 on Ubuntu changed:
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    Status: Needs information => Answered

actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
For the touchpad this usually works:

gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub

find the line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

and make it read:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.reset"

Save the new file, close gedit then run:

sudo update-grub

Should be ok.

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ait amrane omar (o-evistel) said : 		#4

Hello Guys;

1- Regarding the DISPLAY resolution topic the status is still the same (he packages I have been requested to install were already installed). I have taken a look to the "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" file and it seems to be quiet poor:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Configured Video Device"
        Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Default Screen"
        Monitor "Configured Monitor"
        Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

2- Regarding the WIFI "INTEL Centrino Advanced-N 6200" device problem, please find hereafter the "sudo lshw -C network" command output:

  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82577LC Gigabit Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 19
       bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 05
       serial: 00:1d:ba:c1:0e:85
       size: 10MB/s
       capacity: 1GB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=1.0.2-k2 duplex=full firmware=0.12-6 ip=192.168.1.69 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10MB/s
       resources: irq:34 memory:b9100000-b911ffff memory:b9125000-b9125fff ioport:7040(size=32)
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Centrino Advanced-N 6200
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wmaster0
       version: 35
       serial: 00:23:14:3f:4d:5c
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
       resources: irq:35 memory:b8100000-b8101fff

Regards
Omar
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Envoyé: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:42:25 +0200 (CEST)
Objet: Re: [Question #108360]: WIFI INTEL Centrino Advanced-N 6200 Not working with UBUNTU 9.10

Your question #108360 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/108360

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actionparsnip requested for more information:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:nvidia-vdpau/ppa; sudo apt-get update; sudo
apt-get install nvidia-glx-185

This will make the video card run fine. Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-karmic-generic; sudo rmmod -f iwlagn; sleep 5; sudo modprobe iwlagn; sleep 5; sudo iwlist scan | grep -i cell

If the system displays cells then your wifi is working.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

also noticed your xorg.conf is using the vesa driver, you will want to run:

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.con

and change:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Configured Video Device"
        Driver "vesa"
EndSection

to:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Configured Video Device"
        Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

This will force the system to use the nvidia driver you installed.

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ait amrane omar (o-evistel) said : 		#7

Hello guys;

The WIFI problems is solved using generic kernel. Is it possible to do so with the PAE kernel ?

Thanks a lot

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ait amrane omar (o-evistel) said : 		#8

Hello guys,

Regarding the X config I tried the nvidia / vesa substitution but the screen became black;
I noticed in Xorg.0.log the following lines:

(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
        compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
(EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
(EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages.
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Regards
Omar

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#9

what is the output of:

lspci | grep -i vga; lsb_release -c

Thanks

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ait amrane omar (o-evistel) said : 		#10

Hi guys;

"lspci | grep -i vga" output:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] (rev a2)

"lsb_release -c" output:

Codename: karmic

Regards
Omar
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Objet: Re: [Question #108360]: WIFI INTEL Centrino Advanced-N 6200 Not working with UBUNTU 9.10

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actionparsnip requested for more information:
what is the output of:

lspci | grep -i vga; lsb_release -c

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#11

ok try this as an xorg.conf file:

http://pastebin.com/5KKqs0Yf

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ait amrane omar (o-evistel) said : 		#12

Hi there,

1-TouchPad problem solved with "i8042.nopnp" arg added to the kernel boot command line.
2-Resolution problem still remains: the screen becomes black when using xorg.conf
  described in (http://pastebin.com/5KKqs0Yf).

Regards
Omar

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ok try this as an xorg.conf file:

http://pastebin.com/5KKqs0Yf

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Best JordanRife (jrife0) said : 		#13

I bought the same laptop about a week ago and had the same problems.
I solved the touchpad problem by adding the following boot parameter to the menu.lst file:
i8042.nopnp on the line that begins #kopt=.
After this run update-grub at the command line. When you reboot the touchpad should work.
The wireless problem was relatively painless to solve. I just followed the steps laid out by ultiva on the following thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9126876
It's on the second page post number 14.
The graphics problem was solved by downloading the following nvidia driver:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.24-pkg2.run
from: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/195.36.24/
you must first execute
/etc/init.d/gdm stop
at the command line to close x server. This will throw you into a command line interface. navigate to the folder where you saved the driver then run the installation script by typing: sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.24-pkg2.run

Hope this works if you haven't already solved the problem that is :-)

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ait amrane omar (o-evistel) said : 		#14

Hi there,

All these problems are solved now.

Did you succeed to use the INTEL graphics board (STAMINA mode) ?

Thank you

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ait amrane omar (o-evistel) said : 		#15

Hi Jordan,

I tried to install Kubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) but after restart the laptop was completely frozen.
Did you intall 9.10 or 10.04 ?

Regards
Omar

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JordanRife (jrife0) said : 		#16

No it doesn't seem to work in stamina mode. Even if I switch it on it still turns on speed mode. As for installing 10.04, I had the same problem. 9.10 was working fine but after upgrading to 10.04 my graphics no longer worked. If I add nomodeset as a kernel parameter then I can boot but the colors are off. I just switched back to 9.10 after that. I like Koalas more anyway ;). If you get any graphics working at all by inserting this kernel parameter at boot, you might try downloading the package nvidia-current
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
Running the Nvidia driver installer from the Nvidia site didn't work in 10.04. I'm not sure but I think this might be due to the fact that xorg.conf is no longer used in 10.04. Try booting with different kernel versions too. I think the oldest one should work and allow you to get graphics that are at least 800x600 and the right color. Let me know if anything works since I still have not solved this problem myself.

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ait amrane omar (o-evistel) said : 		#17

Hi Jordan,

As I can see, we have experienced the same problems.
If I succeed in fixing the 10.04 issue I will let you know.

Regards
Omar
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JordanRife posted a new comment:
No it doesn't seem to work in stamina mode. Even if I switch it on it still turns on speed mode. As for installing 10.04, I had the same problem. 9.10 was working fine but after upgrading to 10.04 my graphics no longer worked. If I add nomodeset as a kernel parameter then I can boot but the colors are off. I just switched back to 9.10 after that. I like Koalas more anyway ;). If you get any graphics working at all by inserting this kernel parameter at boot, you might try downloading the package nvidia-current
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
Running the Nvidia driver installer from the Nvidia site didn't work in 10.04. I'm not sure but I think this might be due to the fact that xorg.conf is no longer used in 10.04. Try booting with different kernel versions too. I think the oldest one should work and allow you to get graphics that are at least 800x600 and the right color. Let me know if anything works since I still have not solved this problem myself.

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