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[SOLVED] Linux Mint 20.3, unable to get onto WiFi using TRENDnet USB.

[SOLVED] Linux Mint 20.3, unable to get onto WiFi using TRENDnet USB.

Post by DystoniaGamer » Sat May 21, 2022 10:45 am

Hello everyone, I have a rather strange issue. I’m relatively new to Linux, but not exactly. (I have a Laptop with Linux Mint as well, but that’s not the subject of today).

The subject of today is my desktop computer. There’s actually two issues with it, but only one is networking related. So, the networking issue is I can’t connect to WiFi, which is obvious. I have a TRENDnet USB adapter (model number TEW-805UB), that is connected to the computer by an Ivetto USB hub, (The 7 port one). Strangely enough, it sees the TrendNet USB when I go to “Driver Manager”, but when I go to the Network logo in the bottom right, I don’t even got the option to turn WiFi on or off. It only says “Wired cable unplugged”. Also, in Driver Manager, it says;

When I click on the driver, it gives an error of: pk-client-error-quark: Cannot download packages whilst offline (257)

Also, here’s a partial output of;

Re: Linux Mint 20.3, unable to get onto WiFi using TRENDnet USB.

Post by HAWR » Sat May 21, 2022 11:05 am

what strikes me independently of the wifi problem is that you have not loaded a graphics driver. So you should upgrade to the latest 5.13 kernel in the Update Manager > View > Linux kernels and reboot

77Hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 12.0.0 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 21.0.3
compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes

Re: Linux Mint 20.3, unable to get onto WiFi using TRENDnet USB.

Post by DystoniaGamer » Sat May 21, 2022 11:53 am

Hello HAWR, I tried that just now, but unfortunately I get an error when I try upgrading the kernel to 5.13.

The output given is the following;

Re: Linux Mint 20.3, unable to get onto WiFi using TRENDnet USB.

Post by HAWR » Sat May 21, 2022 12:06 pm

Re: Linux Mint 20.3, unable to get onto WiFi using TRENDnet USB.

Post by DystoniaGamer » Sat May 21, 2022 12:29 pm

Also, if I switch the mirror to the global mirror from LayerOnline, on the main Update Manager page itself, it says “Please switch to another Linux Mint mirror. Your APT configuration is corrupt.”

However, I also noticed something else about this particular USB adapter. Since it came with a driver CD, I put it in, and there are drivers for Windows and Mac, but not for Linux. Then after finding that out, I went to the manufacturer’s website and found they actually don’t make a Linux version of drivers for any of their adapters that I found. Maybe I just need to buy a USB adapter that is compatible with Linux?

Fortunately it can wait too until I get another adapter, if that is the issue here. I didn’t actually install Linux over Windows 11. I just have another USB with it installed on that that I’m booting from. I’ll update here tomorrow when the new adapter comes in.

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LM 20.3 — No ethernet, no wifi driver.

LM 20.3 — No ethernet, no wifi driver.

Post by Ima Nanachronism » Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:42 pm

I installed LM 20.3, Cinnamon 5.2.7, Linux Kernal 5.4.0-91-generic on to my old Dell (AMD E1-6010 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics x 2, with a Dell Wireless 1704 802.11b/g/n (2.4GHz) Broadcom Network adapter) laptop computer.

I am limited by circumstance and have no ethernet access but I can (when equipped) access Wifi. Before installing the OS, I tested whether I could get a connected (through Wifi) situation without ethernet. I was successful by simply using my USB ISO-image et al and the Driver Manager.

Oddly, subsequent to the install, my driver manager simply did not wish to complete the task again! The manager looked for hardware drivers, found with . As I applied the changes, I was informed: «An error occurred», «pk-client-error-quark: Cannot download packages whilst offline (257). Now this did not occur when I was using the bootable .ISO USB.

I searched your forums and found a link to place , on to the desktop, double-click on the file and install the driver this way. Now I was notified: «Failed to download package files» — «Check your Internet connection.» Details: «Failed to fetch http://-archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/-g/glibc/libc6-«, «dev_2.31-0ubuntu9.9_amd64.deb Could not resolve ‘archive.ubuntu.com’. Apparently, this required the installation of 5 packages from: Ubuntu Developers .

I am at a loss as to how to resolve this now. Can I install the drivers required to access Wifi without direct access to the internet?

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Hi all, first a bit of information.

I have created a live install on a usb drive and it works fine on my MacBook Air running Big Sur 11.6.2. It also works on my iMac running High Sierra 10.13. each time I use it I have to install the additional drivers for my wireless device but it works.

I used the live install to then create a full installation on a large (32 Gb) usb drive. It loads on the MacBook Air but it does not get recognised by High Sierra on the iMac at all so I cannot load it through the boot loader. This is the first issue I would like to find a solution to if possible.

Although the MacBook Air recognises and loads the full installation and allows me to access file etc. it also does not load the Broadcom drivers. However, when I access «Additional Drivers» and try to install the drivers for the device it recognises, it tells me it cannot do it without an internet connection! But I need the drivers installed to have an internet connection as the MacBook Air does not have an ethernet port and relies entirely on wireless for internet access.

I added (by ticking the box) the CD Rom with ubuntu 20.04 «Focal Fossa» (which I assume is the full installation files on the USB)as a source but it still gives an error. I added the original live install usb to the machine’s second USB port to see if it would recognise it as a software source but it did not and I cannot see how to make it do so.

I need to find a solution that allows me to install the drivers without accessing the internet but I do not know which files I will need or where to access them. They must be on the live usb (and probably also on the full install usb even though it is not finding them) but I do not know how to find or use them. This is the second and main issue I need a solution for.

The device is recognised as a Broadcom and gives the following information in the additional drivers page:

Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source from bcmwl-kernel-source (proprietary)

The error message I get is:

pk-client-error-quark: Cannot download packages whilst offline (257)

Can anyone help me out of this loop please?

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Cannot install wireless drivers

Hi all, first a bit of information.

I have created a live install on a usb drive and it works fine on my MacBook Air running Big Sur 11.6.2. It also works on my iMac running High Sierra 10.13. each time I use it I have to install the additional drivers for my wireless device but it works.

I used the live install to then create a full installation on a large (32 Gb) usb drive. It loads on the MacBook Air but it does not get recognised by High Sierra on the iMac at all so I cannot load it through the boot loader. This is the first issue I would like to find a solution to if possible.

Although the MacBook Air recognises and loads the full installation and allows me to access file etc. it also does not load the Broadcom drivers. However, when I access «Additional Drivers» and try to install the drivers for the device it recognises, it tells me it cannot do it without an internet connection! But I need the drivers installed to have an internet connection as the MacBook Air does not have an ethernet port and relies entirely on wireless for internet access.

I added (by ticking the box) the CD Rom with ubuntu 20.04 «Focal Fossa» (which I assume is the full installation files on the USB)as a source but it still gives an error. I added the original live install usb to the machine’s second USB port to see if it would recognise it as a software source but it did not and I cannot see how to make it do so.

I need to find a solution that allows me to install the drivers without accessing the internet but I do not know which files I will need or where to access them. They must be on the live usb (and probably also on the full install usb even though it is not finding them) but I do not know how to find or use them. This is the second and main issue I need a solution for.

The device is recognised as a Broadcom and gives the following information in the additional drivers page:

Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source from bcmwl-kernel-source (proprietary)

The error message I get is:

pk-client-error-quark: Cannot download packages whilst offline (257)

Can anyone help me out of this loop please?

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pk-client-error-quark: bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script

pk-client-error-quark: bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script

Post by torreydale » Sat Jan 30, 2021 2:56 pm

I have the following wireless driver:
Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n

I run Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.3 and my kernel is:
Linux LM-Cinn 5.4.0-65-generic #73

When using Driver Manager, I get the following:

Re: pk-client-error-quark: bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script

Post by sleeper12 » Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:48 pm

Re: pk-client-error-quark: bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script

Post by torreydale » Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:57 pm

I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times already, but I was up for once more for the record. Here is the result:

Re: pk-client-error-quark: bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script

Post by sleeper12 » Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:13 pm

Re: pk-client-error-quark: bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script

Post by torreydale » Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:03 pm

I’ve done that, too. Here it is:

Re: pk-client-error-quark: bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script

Post by sleeper12 » Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:28 pm

Re: pk-client-error-quark: bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script

Post by torreydale » Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:30 pm

Not sure, but here’s the result:

Re: pk-client-error-quark: bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script

Post by sleeper12 » Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:35 pm

Re: pk-client-error-quark: bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script

Post by torreydale » Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:49 pm

$ sudo apt purge bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom && sudo apt install bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom
[sudo] password for torrey:
Reading package lists. Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information. Done
E: Unable to locate package bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom’
torrey@LM-Cinn:

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Post by sleeper12 » Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:55 pm

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Post by torreydale » Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:58 pm

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Post by sleeper12 » Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:08 pm

Re: pk-client-error-quark: bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script

Post by torreydale » Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:20 pm

Re: pk-client-error-quark: bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script

Post by sleeper12 » Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:10 pm

Re: pk-client-error-quark: bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script

Post by torreydale » Sun Jan 31, 2021 3:16 am

I did do these steps earlier, but they didn’t get me what I needed. The wireless adapter was recognized, but it’s wasn’t picking up any wifi networks.

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Итак, проблему решил.
Признаться некоторый маленький опыт с Линуксом у меня был на работе на уровне ls, cd, cp, ln, rm, vim, tar, emerge и т.д.
Но для домашнего использования не было вообще никакого и поэтому не было знаний, как работать с драйверами и т.п.
Интуитивно понимал, что нужно удалить «плохие» пакеты-зависимости, но как это сделать, естественно не знал.
Из-за того, что мне здесь сразу дали понять, что спасение утопающих дело рук самих утопающих у меня было два варианта: спросить в другом месте или разобраться самому.
Выбрал второй и стал читать разные маны, хелпы и даже книжку (Ubuntu линукс с нуля. Волох — кстати, для тех кто реально с нуля неплохая книга, может только старовата 2018г.).
Хелп dpkg показал, что есть флаг —audit, после выполнения которого мне система сказала, что есть не настроенные пакеты.
И эти пакеты как раз были Нвидиа и для того, чтобы их настроить нужно выполнить ту же команду уже с флагом —configure.
Пару дней сомневался, читал книжку, но потом всё же решился — типа «ты уже всё поломал» и терять больше нечего.
Настройка пошла, но не всех пакетов и в конечном счете остался единственный пакет от драйвера нвидиа nvidia-driver-510.
Дальше уперся в ошибку dpkg-divert:

dpkg-divert: ошибка: несовпадение с пакетом
  при удалении «отклонение /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 из-за libnvidia-gl-510»
  найдено «отклонение /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 в /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib из-за nvidia-340»Опять же из-за отсутствия опыта, а так же по совету в этой ветке, я занимался поиском переустановки пакетов или поиском исправления пакетов — короче всем, что не решает проблему, хотя опыта прибавляет, конечно.
Далее, просто вбил в поисковик «dpkg-divert ошибка несовпадение с пакетом» и вуаля — поисковик выдал одну единственную ветку (а не как мне здесь сказали «Добрая половина форума исписана этой проблемой») на этом же форуме.
Вот ссылка https://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=300542.0
Команда, которая решила мою проблему, выглядит так:

sudo dpkg-divert --remove {package name}т.е. получается так:

sudo dpkg-divert --remove /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1потом без «1», потом еще пара пакетов libGLE.so.
Затем

sudo apt-get install libnvidia-gl-510Затем

sudo apt-get install -fКрасная ошибка работы пакетного менеджера, которая висела в правом верхнем углу ушла еще до перезагрузки.
Затем все остальные ошибки ушли, всё установилось и нормально заработало и заработала видео карта, при нагрузке закрутился вентилятор…
И, кстати, никуда ничего прописывать не пришлось, типа

_NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME="nvidia" __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus="NVIDIA_only" ваше_приложениеМои ошибки, которые допустил изначально: побоялся переключаться с драйвера нувошир на нвидиа из-за того, что видео карта не работала сразу и поэтому полез читать документацию на сайте ubuntu.ru и местный форум из логики, что прежде, чем делать почитай хотя бы документацию.
Здесь нашел, что если две карты, нужно ставить Бамблби, потом, что его нужно ставить с выключенным Secure Boot, ну и понеслась — доставить какой-то старый 340 драйвер нвидиа, выключить SecureBoot и т.д. и т.п.
Оказывается, нужно было просто сразу включить драйвер от Нвидиа последней версии и всё бы заработало (наверное).
Вопросы, конечно, еще остались, типа, как бекап правильно делать, нужно ли провести сейчас полное обновление всего всего после создания бэкапа, стоит ли удалить гуи от нвидиа от сервера и поставить обычный и т.д.
Но, как мне уже посоветовали, похоже, сам разберусь, «маленько посмотрю по сторонам».
Большое всем большое спасибо за участие и внимание!
Не знаю, как поставить метку [РЕШЕНО].

Feel free to correct me if I was mistaken, but I guess we are talking about two network services which is networkd and NetworkManager.

As I understood, Ubuntu Server uses networkd to manage and NetworkManager stay disable, but Cockpit utilizes NetworkManager to do his magic.

I just did a Ubuntu Server 21.10 fresh install, installed Cockpit, and the issue continues.

So, the solution is simple:

1. Configure NetworkManager properly.
2. Configure networkd to use NetworkManager.

NetworkManager uses /etc/network/interfaces for the interfaces, /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf for the main config and have the suit of commands like nmcli and nmtui.

networkd uses /etc/netplan/*.yaml for the interfaces config and I don’t know much about it

The step-by-step

First, I create the interface’s file for my two ethernet cards enp2s0 and enp3s0 with static IP address. This can be different for you.
$ sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

allow-hotplug enp3s0 enp2s0

iface enp3s0 inet static
address 192.168.25.3/24
gateway 192.168.25.1

iface enp2s0 inet static
address 192.168.25.30/24
gateway 192.168.25.1

Would be like this if those NICs was getting a dynamic address

auto lo enp3s0 enp2s0
iface lo inet loopback
iface enp2s0 inet dhcp
iface enp3s0 inet dhcp

Than, I edited NetworkManager to manage those NICs
$ sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

[ifupdown]
managed=true

Second, I created a file called 50-cloud-init.yaml and removed the file 00-installer-config.yaml that already exists, but I guess it could be the same. As I understood, when we tell to networkd to renderer with NetworkManager, any other entry is ignored.
$ sudo nano /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml

network:
version: 2
renderer: NetworkManager

After that, try, generate and apply this config
$ sudo netplan try
$ sudo netplan generate
$ sudo netplan apply

At the end, I restarted the NetworkManager service.
$ sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

This did the job for me =D