I did a server dist-upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04LTS, and in the process, lost all networking. I'm open to either getting the existing drivers loaded and working, or seeing if a dist-upgrade to 16.04 (possible from DVD?) would fix things. More interested in getting my ethernet working, but including wifi for completeness.
I've tried a bunch of suggestions, but right now, both eth0 and wlan0, after an lshw
report sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu... *-network UNCLAIMED
My ether is Qualcom Atheros - AR8132 Fast Ethernet
My wifi is Broadcom - BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
In /lib/firmware/br* there are a bunch of bin files, but there's no /lib/firmware/ar8* directory, but there are a bunch of other 'ar#' directories.
Definitely a noob with this, so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Here are the added lshw
results:
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:feafc000-feafffff
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR8132 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: c0
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:febc0000-febfffff ioport:ec80(size=128)
uname -a gives:
Linux ubuntu 3.13.0.113-generic #160-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 9 09:28:25 UTC 2017 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
I was never able to get the linux-image-extra-3.13.0-113-generic_3.13.0-113.160_i386.deb
on its own, or any of the many drivers suggested in other threads, but by going to https://ubuntuupdates.org, and backtracking through the errors of what was missing, I searched the missing items, and kept trying installs, until one finally went through without errors. With sudo dpkg -i *.deb
, I installed in this order, which might vary for you, or you may require additional/fewer installs, and may not make any sense to the more experienced, but worked for me:
linux-headers-3.13.0-129_3.13.0-129.178_all.deb
linux-headers-3.13.0-129-generic_3.13.0-129.178_i386.deb
linux-headers-generic_3.13.0.129.138_i386.deb
rebooted and saw it listed that "limited" (???) networking was back. I tried, and was able to run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
which took just under a full hour, had to fix a lot of config's and settings with PHP and apache, after manually re-installing them, because they were held back in the update/upgrade, but I'm back up in a basic capacity now.
Thanks for all of the patience and leads. Hope this helps someone else.
P.S. While I went from 12.04 to 14.04, because of a change with PHP, this post was helpful in getting apache back up, even though it addresses 13.10: Upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 - Apache not able to start
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