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[SOLVED] Lenovo IdeaPad S10 wifi

Post by LEGO » Wed Feb 25, 2015 7:06 pm

I have installed Mint 17 MATE onto this atom-powered netbook. Wifi will not work, I have tried «sudo modprobe -r ideapad-laptop» but that hasn’t helped. Any ideas how to make this work? It does have a Broadcomm chip in it.

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Re: Lenovo IdeaPad S10 wifi

Post by Lanser » Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:13 pm

Hi Lego. I have two S10-3’s. One running LMDE the other LM17.1 Mate. WiFi on both work OK.
Try the easy fixes first. Check that WiFi is enabled in the bios. Then try toggling the Fn + F5 key to enable Wireless.

Re: Lenovo IdeaPad S10 wifi

Post by LEGO » Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:41 pm

Lanser, thanks for that info. I will try those things when I get home tonight. I am pretty sure that wifi is enabled in the BIOS because the machine used to run Windows XP and the wifi worked at that time, and I didn’t change the BIOS when I installed Mint. Also, I stated that I was using 17 MATE, but now that I think about it I am pretty sure I installed cinnamon.

Re: Lenovo IdeaPad S10 wifi

Post by LEGO » Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:37 pm

Lanser, The wifi was enabled in the BIOS, and I can turn it on and off with fn-F5 or with the dedicated button above the keyboard. Still, Mint does not seem to detect the built-in wifi. If I plug my USB wifi dongle in, it is detected and works fine (however, it has such a limited rang that want to get the internal wifi working). I don’t have the S10-3 model, mine is just an S10.

Re: Lenovo IdeaPad S10 wifi

Post by Lanser » Thu Feb 26, 2015 9:06 pm

Lego. Please provide the output of the inxi -n command in a terminal session.
Could you also provide the Lenovo Machine Type and Model number. (Will be on the bottom of the Laptop and on the box.)

Re: Lenovo IdeaPad S10 wifi

Post by LEGO » Thu Feb 26, 2015 9:30 pm

tkm@tkm-Lenovo ~ $ inxi -n Network: Card-1: Broadcom NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express driver: tg3 IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:1e:68:ae:a9:60 Card-2: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY driver: b43-pci-bridge IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A Card-3: Edimax EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS] driver: rtl8192cu IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 80:1f:02:ee:41:ad 

Re: Lenovo IdeaPad S10 wifi

Post by JeremyB » Fri Feb 27, 2015 4:29 pm

tkm@tkm-Lenovo ~ $ inxi -n Network: Card-1: Broadcom NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express driver: tg3 IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:1e:68:ae:a9:60 Card-2: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY driver: b43-pci-bridge IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A Card-3: Edimax EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS] driver: rtl8192cu IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 80:1f:02:ee:41:ad 

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

Re: Lenovo IdeaPad S10 wifi

Post by LEGO » Sat Feb 28, 2015 2:16 pm

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

Thanks, JeremyB! First I did an apt-get update, then installed the firmware, and rebooted. After the reboot, I had to bring the wlan1 interface up, and now it is working like a champ!

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[Решено]Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2: проблемы с настройкой WIFI (Карта — Intel WiMAX/WiFi Link 5050 Series)

[Решено]Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2: проблемы с настройкой WIFI

Сообщение spectator » 17.09.2009 22:38

Всем привет!
При установке Ubuntu 9.04 столкнулся с проблемой настройки WIFI. Ноут вообще не видел карту (Intel WiMAX/WiFi Link 5050 Series). После обновления ядра до 2.6.29, карта нашлась, но Wicd mananger пишет No wireless networks found. Информация о системе подробно приведена вот тут парнем, у которого точно такой же агрегат (только проблема с ваймакс )
Готов ответить на все необходимые уточняющие вопросы. Заранее спасибо!

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Re: [Решено]Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2: проблемы с настройкой WIFI

Сообщение blackdevil » 17.09.2009 22:48

Так расскажите что в настройках Wicd и что покаывает команда iwconfig. А еще что в Система — Администрирование — Драйверы устройств

Re: [Решено]Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2: проблемы с настройкой WIFI

Сообщение spectator » 17.09.2009 23:08

Так расскажите что в настройках Wicd и что покаывает команда iwconfig. А еще что в Система — Администрирование — Драйверы устройств

В драйверах устройств нет ничего.

~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:»default»
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

pan0 no wireless extensions.

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В Wicd:
WPA supplicant Driver — madwifi
Wireless interface — wlan0
Wired interface — eth0
External programms — везде автомат

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Linux compilation is a blog contains all my setup during linux installation. It’s mainly for me to keep track what I do with my Linux.

Linux setup on my computer

Linux compilation is meanly for me to remember a few step when I install linux mint 8 and ubuntu 9.10 into my Asus laptop. This blog contain all step I did installing and troubleshoot when using Linux.

Before this I’m using ubuntu 9.10 but after trying linux mint 8 I found out it easy on me. Maybe later I will change to other distro. well still this blog will be added all the step I do in that distro.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Setup Lenovo S10-2 WiFi in Linux Mint 8

Ok. just pick one netbook Lenovo S10-2 bring back and first mistake I do is over confident on the brand. which I learn a lesson never never confident to the salesman (and the brand) when they said the brand is superb no prbolem so far and bla bla. blame on me too because I just check the body and the accessories inside the box but I didn’t try to start the unit. Bring back and on it I spot a red dot in the middle of the screen. Emmm is it an effect I thought 🙂 but check it out it’s a hot spot dot pixel if not mistake they call it not the dead pixel. Thought never mind call them next morning and asking for new replacement.

Surprising next morning call them the taukey pick my call and explain to her about my problem and I insist to get a replacement. and she said cannot replace new one and instead can not do anything! it the Lenovo regulation got red or dead pixel can not do anything. ha ha my head getting blow up listen to the explanation. I told her I just bought last night and it not yet 24 hour and explain that I didn’t check the display seem I confident on the brand. Well this put me another 100% sceptical on lenovo brand. I always used Asus and Gigabyte.

I told her this show bad impression on the brand and services as last night your salesman told me Lenovo services is good now she told me got red dot the company can not do anything. meaning I have to live with it after paying RM1249.00. What you think if you were me. angry LOL. I still pushed her and insist to get me new unit. she told just come over and see how la. ok. the whole day I can’t focus on my job as driving whole day stuck on traffic jam is one thing thinking either I can get new unit for replacement also one thing. You know I did have problem too with Asus and Gigabyte but they never said can not la. like gigabyte manager he told me bring over I changed new motherboard for you no problem. that after used it for five month later. You know we feel calm when listen people talk nicely and give good hoping to you not just like cannot change! company regulation la. really piss off

As in the evening I drive fast to the place. arrived and met her and show the red pixel to her salesman. the salesman told me you know «if we take back this unit how we going to sell it back» eeemmm not my biznes cause you can return back to your supplier..claim on them. But he told me that the supplier don’t care to take back because it only one red dot. You know what type of term is this include the supplier or lenovo do they think that when happen like my situation it is normal for them don’t care. and that is their regulation. In my heart no more lenovo another thing.. I as customer I don’t know your lenovo company regulation. same to other brand we never know their regulation. What for we want to know huh! I told the salesman you should told me lenovo regulation before I pay the unit or when we enter the shop put some banner or bunting tell customer lenovo regulation so we be more cautious when buying lenovo items not after we pay than problem arise. than all the regulation come out. ridiculous.

After make some noise and lucky there is quite customer inside the shop the taukey agreed to change new unit for me. Make it short I managed get new unit and check the display unit as never never trust to the best brand in the market include the best services. funny is before you pay they smile to you until their ears as you are the best customers but next day got problem their face turn as ugly as pig and never say sorry for the inconvenience I face. Instead I have to said thank you to the taukey. as her face is sour. just said to me you the only unlucky person as my unit only face the red dot problem. ha ha bad luck for me but you just can’t ignore to help your customer after they facing problem. right. 🙂

ok after bring home the lenovo S10-2 is running windows XP. so after confident no more red dot I decided to reformat and install Linux Mint 8 and the installation run smoothly just one thing problem is during running linux mint 8 live cd normally on my Asus it can detect wireless card but running in S10-2 it can’t. Ok as I’m quite new to Linux I said to myself it ok. let it run until finished installation and reboot.

Reboot still it can’t detect the wireless card now another problem arise. why linux can’t detect broadcom wireless card. so troublesome. instead try ubuntu netbook remix also can’t detect the wireless card. ok lastly google around and bump to this blog http://ridz1ba.blogspot.com
where the owner have same S10-2 as mine and he manage to activate the wireless card. Anyone facing same problem can surf the blog and follow how to activate your wireless.

For me I better put the instruction here as the blog is for me to remember how I install lots of application in my linux system. So here goes.

1. After installation done on Linux Mint 8 and the USB bootable still plug in to the USB port. Click on the USB folder on the desktop and click on the ‘pool’ folder icon, then the ‘main’ folder icon and then the ‘f’ folder icon -> ‘fakeroot’ folder. Click fakeroot_1.12.4ubuntu_i386.deb. Install package. Click the ‘Close’ button when finished and then close the Package installer.

2. Open the ‘d’ folder -> ‘dkms’ folder. Click on the only file there dkms_2.1.0.1-oubuntu1_all.deb. Install package and close when finished.

4. Open ‘pool’ folder -> ‘restricted’ folder -> ‘b’ folder -> ‘bcmwl’ folder. Click on bcmwl-kernel-source_5.10.91.9+bdcom-0ubuntu4_i386.deb to install than close it.

5. Restart the netbook than click the network icon and your wireless AP will appear in a list. To connect to the internet via the wireless just click on your AP, enter the password and you will be connected.

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