[Regression] PCMCIA wireless card no longer works upon insertion (Ubuntu 7.10 beta)

[Joey Espinosa]

This card was autoconfigured correctly under Ubuntu 7.04, with no extra packages added by me for this purpose. I performed a clean install of Ubuntu 7.10 beta, and now the wireless card does not autoconfigure upon insertion. A look at "dmesg" shows that no steps are performed after "pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0", such as loading the appropriate module? In 7.04, the appropriate modules were "orinoco", "orinoco_cs", and "hermes", as well as the "pcmcia" and "pcmcia_core" modules of course. The pcmcia modules are loaded, but none of the other three are currently loaded (even though the card is plugged in).

I think I read somewhere that the orinoco_cs modules are no longer included in the 2.6.22 kernel... However, we shouldn't expect someone (my grandmother, for instance) to have to attempt to disable orinoco in favor of installing and using the hostap drivers (if that is in fact the solution). We need to make things like wireless card configuration somewhat transparent to the user.

This is the output of "lspcmcia -vv" (just in case):

Socket 0 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:03:01.0)
        Configuration: state: on ready: unknown
                        Voltage: 5.0V Vcc: 5.0V Vpp: 5.0V
--none--
--none--
Socket 0 Device 0: [-- no driver --] (bus ID: 0.0)
        Configuration: state: on
        Product Name: Dell TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card Version 01.01
        Identification: manf_id: 0x0156 card_id: 0x0002
                        function: 6 (network)
                        prod_id(1): "Dell" (0xd726cf79)
                        prod_id(2): "TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card" (0xce1172fb)
                        prod_id(3): "Version 01.01" (0xd27deb1a)
                        prod_id(4): --- (---)

Hope this helps. Please contact me if more information is needed.

[Barry K. Nathan (barryn)]

This might be related to bug #125832 (in fact, it might be a duplicate).

[xteejx (xteejx)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

This is not a bug in the linux-meta package, moving to the linux package.

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete a while ago and has not had any feedback to provide the requested information. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the latest Karmic 9.10 Alpha release http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/ . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.