[Solved] Linuxlite fails to install on laptop!

brickwizard said:
Good morning, well done [so far] your inxi shows both drivers are installed and so the Wi-Fi should be active, my only thought is there may be a hard block on it, on your laptop will be either a dedicated switch for the Wi-Fi to switch it on/off [some call it airline mode] or it could be on one of your F keys, or even a combination of keys, find and switch on and hope it works.
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Hi, where is this switch supposed to be. I remeberthat also when Ubuntu 12.04 was installed there before the install I did last night there was exactly the same problem. There I also saw that in the network panel the airplane switch was on and there was no way (I could find) turn it off (I could see the switch that is, but when I tried to move it to the off position it would bounce back) Now in this I can't even see this switch (so far at least)
 
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wizardfromoz said:
G'day all :)

Just a heads up - End of life for Linux Lite 3.8 (and all of the 3.x series) was 1 April 2021, so there is no support for this.

Better think about another distro.

Cheers

Wizard
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Thanks! What other distros still support 32-bit architectures (if ever there still are)?
 
sinergy said:
When I click that button all that happens is Firefox starts up
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you got me with that one... never come across that before
 
sinergy said:
Do you think that there is some way of modifying the config of this button somehow?
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one of the programming specialist may have some idea, I spent a while looking for the same thing yours has but did not find any similar reports
 
what i have found is a diffrent layout for some travelmate's where the wireless switch is on the front pannel


starting from the left as you look at it, if you have a mini speaker, usb,, headphones output, mic input, line input then 2 long switches the first is wireless the second bluetooth then Bat light and last pwr light, if yours appears to look like this try the forst long switch from the right
 
brickwizard said:
what i have found is a diffrent layout for some travelmate's where the wireless switch is on the front pannel


starting from the left as you look at it, if you have a mini speaker, usb,, headphones output, mic input, line input then 2 long switches the first is wireless the second bluetooth then Bat light and last pwr light, if yours appears to look like this try the forst long switch from the right
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I pressed that switch, at the rightmost end, and nothing happened after pressing it several times ....
 
Well i'm sorry you have me on that one., I haven't found any other information
 
sinergy said:
I pressed that switch, at the rightmost end, and nothing happened after pressing it several times ....
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It sometimes takes Linux a bit to recognize new hardware. First run this command:

Code: 
lshw -C network

Flip the switch, wait a few minutes, and then run it again:

Code: 
lshw -C network

Feel free to share the output of one or both of them wrapped in code tags.

Again, give it a few minutes between switch flips.
 
KGIII said:
It sometimes takes Linux a bit to recognize new hardware. First run this command:

Code: 
lshw -C network

Flip the switch, wait a few minutes, and then run it again:

Code: 
lshw -C network

Feel free to share the output of one or both of them wrapped in code tags.

Again, give it a few minutes between switch flips.
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Hi, @KGIII
I run the command as suggested. This time something different happened. When I click the button (what should be the network switch) thunderbird opens up! ....
However this is the output of the suggested command:

Code: 
 *-network:0 DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@0000:06:03.0
       logical name: wlp6s3
       version: 05
       serial: 00:12:f0:d1:93:be
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.2kmprq firmware=ABG:9.0.5.27 (Dec 12 2007) latency=32 link=no maxlatency=24 mingnt=3 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
       resources: irq:17 memory:b010b000-b010bfff

Code: 
*-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: BCM4401 100Base-T
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 8
       bus info: pci@0000:06:08.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:c0:9f:c7:74:18
       size: 10Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=half latency=32 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10Mbit/s
       resources: irq:16 memory:b0106000-b0107fff memory:b0120000-b013ffff

So it seems ever more clear that this button is wired to something other that wireless enabling. And the question is whether this can be changed from the command line (I also tried to check how Xubuntu works on this laptop without installing it, and the behaviour is exactly the same)
 
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Well, that's just weird.

Weirder still is you're using an Intel wireless adapter. That should be picked up automatically. In the first instance, it appears that it is working but disabled. You did enable it by right clicking on the network icon in the lower right (that's where it usually is - but you should have a network indicator somewhere where you can also enable and disable it).

Let's try something...

Grab, let's say openSUSE Tumbleweed - which should have a nice newish kernel in it.


Then write that .iso to a thumbdrive. Stuff it into your USB port and boot to it. It's a big download, but shouldn't take too long.

I want you to run it in a live environment (don't install or anything) and then, again, cycle through the wireless button slowly - giving the computer plenty of time to pick it up as enabled.

You don't have any other keys that enable/disable wireless, I hope? Just the one manual switch as pointed out by our cohort Brick?
 
Ok, mistery solved! Your last question prompted me to se if there was indeed some other button and ... there is! damn it!:mad:
I decided that I had to check the user manual and indeed (as in the image below) there is a button (button 5) which activates the wireless. FAct is that that this button doesn't really look like a button, since it is transparent ... so I would have never immagined it would be something functional. Also this accounts for other times when other members of my food coop where the laptop was (and will be again) sometimes experienced impossibility to connect to the local wifi but other times it did work, meaning to me that we inadvertedly touched this button and shut down the wireless device without knowing and reactivate it equally without knowing ,,,, go figure! What a bad place to site such an important button (at least I never had any laptops with buttons in this front panel position, as they call them!)
Anyway thanks so much again for you support and patience!
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I figured we'd find out what it was pretty soon after we saw that the drivers were there and that you shouldn't need newer drivers - though that's worth checking. If you didn't have any additional switches, the newer kernel in openSUSE might have been the ticket you needed.

Glad it's sorted.
 
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