Ubuntu 7.10 Wireless Interface WEP password login problem with Asus WL-167G Usb Wlan Adapter

[Vittorio]

Binary package hint: rt2500-base

When my Asus WL-167G Usb Wlan Adapter is on, the Ubuntu 7.10 don't have problem to find it and discover any Access Point network around my computer.
but....Both, when I am using the Manual Network and automatic network mode the Network software has problem to get any wep password and activate the interface.

I did a lot of times with different approach to setup the network interface without success.

Best Regards

Vittorio

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description doesn't yet have enough information.
Please include as attachments the following additional information, if you have not already done so (please pay attention to lspci's additional options), as required by the Ubuntu Kernel Team:
1. Please include the output of the command 'uname -a' in your next response. It should be one, long line of text which includes the exact kernel version you're running, as well as the CPU architecture.
2. Please run the command 'dmesg > dmesg.log' after a fresh boot and attach the resulting file 'dmesg.log' to this bug report.
3. Please run the command 'sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log' and attach the resulting file 'lspci-vvnn.log' to this bug report.
4. Additionally, the log file '/var/log/daemon.log' would be quite helpful in debugging this issue.
For your reference, the full description of procedures for kernel-related bug reports is available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies . Thanks in advance!

[Daniel Comşa (daniel-comsa)]

Hi,

I'm having the same problem. I will attach the files you mentioned. Please note that I'm running the live CD, and that I have another wireless interface on my laptop, which works. The Asus one is for my desktop. This has been very annoying and it forced me to use Windows on my desktop, because this problem has appeared on Feisty for me. In Edgy it worked out of the box.

#uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 06:00:47 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Daniel Comşa (daniel-comsa)]

Also, here is lsusb and lspci. The Asus adapter si the one on usb (Bus 004 Device 002: ID 174f:a311)

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 174f:a311
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. M-UV69a Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
01:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 08)
01:01.2 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 17)
01:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 08)
01:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)

[luca.mg (luca-mg)]

Vittorio, I get this very same problem with/without wep, could You please post
the outputs of the following commands:
lsusb
dmesg
ifconfig
iwconfig

Daniel, forgive me for double posting here and on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144448

>This looks similar with bug #147811. I have the same problem.

I do agree with ^that^, this is the same that's happening to me

>I have posted my log files on the other bug report.

regarding Your dmesg:

[ 218.108000] ieee80211_init: failed to initialize WME (err=-17)
[ 218.120000] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_ieee80211_rate_control_unregister
[ 218.120000] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_sta_info_put
[ 218.120000] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_sta_info_get
[ 218.120000] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_ieee80211_rate_control_register

You get the error 17 too

>Also, here is lsusb and lspci. The Asus adapter si the one on usb (Bus 004 Device 002: ID 174f:a311)

this is a device id that I do not know of, perhaps a very recent stick? Anyhow all those different
flavours of Asus sticks seem to share the same code, and hidden somewhere there must a typo!

[Vittorio (vittorio-carloni)]

Hi there!

Sorry, I am in late. :-)

This the output from Ubuntu console.

I hope it wil be useful for fix the Wlan problem.

Thanks

Vittorio

lsusb

vittorio@Ubuntu:~$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 005: ID 0f2d:9308 ViPower, Inc.
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 046d:c00e Logitech, Inc. M-BJ69 Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 05e3:0606 Genesys Logic, Inc.
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0b05:1706 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

dmesg

vittorio@Ubuntu:~$ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.22-12-generic (buildd@vernadsky) (gcc
version 4.1.3 20070831 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu1)) #1 SMP Sun Sep
23 18:11:30 GMT 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-12.39-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009d800 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009d800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 127MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000f56f0
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 262128) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 229376
[ 0.000000] HighMem 229376 -> 262128
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 262128
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 262128
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 255 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 32497 pages, LIFO batch:7
[ 0.000000] DMI 2.2 present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000F7210, 0014 (r0 VKT400)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 3FFF3000, 002C (r1 VKT400 AWRDACPI 42302E31
AWRD 0)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 3FFF3040, 0074 (r1 VKT400 AWRDACPI 42302E31
AWRD 0)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 3FFF30C0, 4BC1 (r1 VKT400 AWRDACPI 1000 MSFT
100000D)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 3FFF0000, 0040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 3FFF7CC0, 0054 (r1 VKT400 AWRDACPI 42302E31
AWRD 0)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[ 0.000000] Processor #0 6:10 APIC version 16
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 3,...

[Tommy (tom-h)]

Just posting to say I'm having the same issue. Occasionally network-manager reports that a connection has been made, but no internet apps work. Sometimes iconfig reports that it has an Access-Point, sometimes not.

'netstat -nr' always gives a blank output except when I try to set up the network with a static address, but the result is always the same - no actual network activity.

I dual-boot with Windows and the card works fine (in fact I'm using Windows now to post this :( ).

I've tried various solutions - disabling avahi and setting up DNS myself, changing the Mode of the card etc - nothing works, and the results are invariably the same: I can see the network, and supposedly connect to it, but nothing past that - no useful network activity.

[Tommy (tom-h)]

Forgive the double post - I forgot to mention that this problem is brand new to Gutsy - the dongle worked out-of-the-box in Feisty.

I also have an Edimax EW7117 wireless dongle which uses the zd firmware, but I cannot bring myself to set it up manually *again* - plus it's very temperemental even when it does work. I would rather find a solution for the Asus card, since it seems to be so close to functional anyway.

[Gnuton (antonio-aloisio)]

I've the same problem with my Linksys wusb54g adapter and the kernel 2.6.22-14-server.

[ 399.730000] ieee80211_init: failed to initialize WME (err=-17)
[ 399.760000] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_ieee80211_rate_control_unregister
[ 399.760000] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_sta_info_put
[ 399.760000] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_sta_info_get
[ 399.770000] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_ieee80211_rate_control_register
[ 399.790000] wmaster0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
[ 399.880000] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2500usb

So i'm using the legacy driver rt2570 now, and it works fine for me.

[Neil Wallace (rowinggolfer)]

Hi all,

I'm having a very similar issue, and have solved it!
I'm posting here in case it helps with the diagnosis for these issues.

I have a brand new laptop, and the wireless card works right out of the box with the Gutsy Live CD.
However, once installed, it doesn't work.

I've studied the dmesg from both situations.

My particular card loads two modules into the Kernel, namely rt75usb and rt2500usb.
Live CD loads them in that order... and all is well.
Hard Drive install loads them in the reverse order... and wireless is badly broken.

A fix is to manually remove both and then re-install in the correct order
i.e. (as root)]
rmmod rt2500usb
rmmod rt73usb
modprobe rt73usb
modprobe rt2500usb

and all works perfectly - until the next re-boot :-(

Neil.

[Neil Wallace (rowinggolfer)]

solved the boot issue also.

I only need the rt73usb module, so I've added rt2500usb to /etc/modrobe.d/blacklist

(p.s. for google hacking purposes, my laptop is an ADVENT 9112)

[mr. adams (christopher-lee-adams-deactivatedaccount)]

I need to retract this bug report. I had the same problem described in this bug report using similar (ASUS) hardware, but with bulit-in wireless instead of USB. I was having this problem under Gutsy and again under Hardy. But now wireless with WEP seems to be working on my configuration [Hardy].

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

The 18 month support period for Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 has reached its end of life -
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.10-eol . As a result, we are closing the
linux-source-2.6.22 kernel task. It would be helpful if you could test the
new Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 release and confirm if this issue remains -
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904overview. If the issue still exists with the Jaunty
release, please update this report by changing the Status of the "linux (Ubuntu)"
task from "Incomplete" to "New". Also please be sure to run the command below
which will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this
report. Thanks in advance.

apport-collect -p linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic 147811

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

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