[Bio-linux-list] WiFi No additional Driver

Tauqeer Alam tauqeer9 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 12 10:41:36 EDT 2017


Thank you very much. I have Bio-Linux 8 installed on hard disk. Here are
the outputs-

nureen at ayesha:~$ sudo lshw -short

[sudo] password for nureen:
H/W path        Device      Class          Description
======================================================
                            system         All Series (All)
/0                          bus            MAXIMUS VII HERO
/0/0                        memory         64KiB BIOS
/0/42                       memory         32GiB System Memory
/0/42/0                     memory         8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600
MHz (0.6 ns)
/0/42/1                     memory         8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600
MHz (0.6 ns)
/0/42/2                     memory         8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600
MHz (0.6 ns)
/0/42/3                     memory         8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600
MHz (0.6 ns)
/0/51                       processor      Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @
4.00GHz
/0/51/52                    memory         256KiB L1 cache
/0/51/53                    memory         1MiB L2 cache
/0/51/54                    memory         8MiB L3 cache
/0/100                      bridge         4th Gen Core Processor DRAM
Controller
/0/100/1                    bridge         Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core
Processor PCI Express x16 Controller
/0/100/2                    display        Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core
Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/3                    multimedia     Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core
Processor HD Audio Controller
/0/100/14                   bus            9 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI
Controller
/0/100/16                   communication  9 Series Chipset Family ME
Interface #1
/0/100/19       eth0        network        Ethernet Connection (2) I218-V
/0/100/1a                   bus            9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI
Controller #2
/0/100/1b                   multimedia     9 Series Chipset Family HD Audio
Controller
/0/100/1c                   bridge         9 Series Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 1
/0/100/1c.3                 bridge         9 Series Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 4
/0/100/1c.3/0               storage        ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller
/0/100/1d                   bus            9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI
Controller #1
/0/100/1f                   bridge         9 Series Chipset Family Z97 LPC
Controller
/0/100/1f.2                 storage        9 Series Chipset Family SATA
Controller [AHCI Mode]
/0/100/1f.3                 bus            9 Series Chipset Family SMBus
Controller
/0/1            scsi3       storage
/0/1/0.0.0      /dev/sda    disk           2TB WDC WD2002FAEX-0
/0/1/0.0.0/1    /dev/sda1   volume         29GiB Linux swap volume
/0/1/0.0.0/2    /dev/sda2   volume         1833GiB Extended partition
/0/1/0.0.0/2/5  /dev/sda5   volume         1833GiB Linux filesystem
partition
/0/2            scsi4       storage
/0/2/0.0.0      /dev/cdrom  disk           DVDRAM GH24NS95
/0/3            scsi5       storage
/0/3/0.0.0      /dev/sdb    disk           128GB Samsung SSD 840
/0/3/0.0.0/1    /dev/sdb1   volume         954MiB EXT4 volume
/0/3/0.0.0/2    /dev/sdb2   volume         118GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/4            scsi6       storage
/0/4/0.0.0      /dev/sdc    disk           128GB Samsung SSD 840
/0/4/0.0.0/1    /dev/sdc1   volume         954MiB EXT4 volume
/0/4/0.0.0/2    /dev/sdc2   volume         118GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/5            scsi7       storage
/0/5/0.0.0      /dev/sdd    disk           2TB WDC WD2002FAEX-0
/0/5/0.0.0/1    /dev/sdd1   volume         1863GiB EXT4 volume
/1                          power          To Be Filled By O.E.M.

nureen at ayesha:~$  lsb_release -d

Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

nureen at ayesha:~# ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 54:a0:50:e6:54:53
          inet addr:192.168.0.6  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: 2601:240:8300:c330:56a0:50ff:fee6:5453/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::56a0:50ff:fee6:5453/64 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: 2601:240:8300:c330:31fa:ae36:a71c:7125/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: 2601:240:8300:c330::5/128 Scope:Global
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:68468 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:32944 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:98005737 (98.0 MB)  TX bytes:3112093 (3.1 MB)
          Interrupt:20 Memory:f7d00000-f7d20000

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:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:619 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:619 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
          RX bytes:53093 (53.0 KB)  TX bytes:53093 (53.0 KB)

*I also ran following commands-*
  sudo -i
  apt update
  apt full-upgrade
  apt-get autoremove

Thanks

Tauqeer



On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:49 AM, Tony Travis <
tony.travis at minke-informatics.co.uk> wrote:

> On 12/08/17 05:03, Tauqeer Alam wrote:
> > Hi All
> > I am trying to set up WiFi connection on my Biolinux machine, but it is
> > not working. It is not recognising and WiFi connections and any
> > additional drivers are not appearing either (Systems Settings > Software
> > & Updates > Additional Drivers). It says "No additional drivers
> > available". Everything works fine when Ethernet cable is connected.
>
> Hi, Tauqeer.
>
> Please post details of the hardware by running:
>
>   sudo lshw -short
>
> Please also post the output from:
>
>   lsb_release -d
>
> It should say:
>
>   Description:  Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
>
> If you have Bio-Linux 8 installed on hard disk, then make sure you do:
>
>   sudo -i
>   apt update
>   apt full-upgrade
>   apt-get autoremove
>
> *** DON'T do this if you're running Bio-Linux from a USB-stick! ***
>
> If you are using a Bio-Linux 8.0.7 USB-stick, it is using an older Linux
> kernel from Ubuntu 14.04.02 and may not support more recent WiFi chips.
>
> A work-around is to use a USB WiFi dongle instead of the built-in WiFi.
>
> HTH,
>
>   Tony.
>
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