[HARDY] Wireless Ethernet (ath0) not working

[uncloned]

 Wireless connection does not show up in network manager

This is the same USB Flash Drive installation where the update manger didn't install
I can 't follow the instructions to fix the upgrade manager because I can't get on line.
The install is usable locally but of course can not get out to the internet
(going wired is not a convenient option but looks to be possible)

If someone could tell me what file to find from the installation I will grab it off the drive and upload it.

I am running Hardy on a Acer Aspire 5102WLMi laptop - and writing this from the same laptop running Gutsy

Chris

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

Could you follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingHardwareDetection and give us some information about your system?

If you need help getting information off your system try asking a question on the support tracker.

If both your partitions are on the same laptop then you should be able access hardy config files from gutsy.

[Chris Vaisvil (chrisvaisvil)]

Hi Caroline - is there an entry for this bug I should go to?

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Caroline Ford <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Could you follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingHardwareDetection and
> give us some information about your system?
>
> If you need help getting information off your system try asking a
> question on the support tracker.
>
> If both your partitions are on the same laptop then you should be able
> access hardy config files from gutsy.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> [HARDY] Wireless Ethernet (ath0) not working
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197344
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Wireless connection does not show up in network manager
>
> This is the same USB Flash Drive installation where the update manger
> didn't install
> I can 't follow the instructions to fix the upgrade manager because I
> can't get on line.
> The install is usable locally but of course can not get out to the
> internet
> (going wired is not a convenient option but looks to be possible)
>
> If someone could tell me what file to find from the installation I will
> grab it off the drive and upload it.
>
> I am running Hardy on a Acer Aspire 5102WLMi laptop - and writing this
> from the same laptop running Gutsy
>
> Chris
>

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197344

On 01/03/2008, Chris Vaisvil <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi Caroline - is there an entry for this bug I should go to?

[uncloned (cjv01)]

OK - please remember that the problem is with a HARDY installation - not GUTSY which was used to generate these files

The HARDY installation can not talk to the out side world.

If you need a file off of the HARDY installation please specify which one and I will get it

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

We're only interested in files from one that doesn't work. Are the
files you've attached from the working gutsy?

If they are two partitions on the same machine you should be able to
mount the hardy partition in gutsy and access the config files that
way.

[Chris Vaisvil (chrisvaisvil)]

Hi Caroline

The instructions that I saw only had me capture the commands run on a
terminal.
If you want me to append filed from the HARDY installation that's fine.
Please tell me what files you want.

Otherwise to do as instructed with HARDY I will have to boot into HARDY and
run the commands.
Of course that will mean booting back into Gutsy to send them.

I can do it once my FTP transfer is over in a few minutes
Chris

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Caroline Ford <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> We're only interested in files from one that doesn't work. Are the
> files you've attached from the working gutsy?
>
> If they are two partitions on the same machine you should be able to
> mount the hardy partition in gutsy and access the config files that
> way.
>
> --
> [HARDY] Wireless Ethernet (ath0) not working
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197344
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Wireless connection does not show up in network manager
>
> This is the same USB Flash Drive installation where the update manger
> didn't install
> I can 't follow the instructions to fix the upgrade manager because I
> can't get on line.
> The install is usable locally but of course can not get out to the
> internet
> (going wired is not a convenient option but looks to be possible)
>
> If someone could tell me what file to find from the installation I will
> grab it off the drive and upload it.
>
> I am running Hardy on a Acer Aspire 5102WLMi laptop - and writing this
> from the same laptop running Gutsy
>
> Chris
>

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

Please do! Sorry i should have checked what I asked you for before
saying you could get it from log files...

[uncloned (cjv01)]

OK - I noticed one thing - look at this output from the terminal..... and notice sudo choked on the installation name.

Desktop Documents Music Pictures Public Templates Videos
chris@chris-usb:~$ cd Desktop
chris@chris-usb:~/Desktop$ uname -a > uname-a.log
chris@chris-usb:~/Desktop$ #
chris@chris-usb:~/Desktop$
chris@chris-usb:~/Desktop$ #
chris@chris-usb:~/Desktop$
chris@chris-usb:~/Desktop$ cat /proc/version_signature > proc_version_signature.log
chris@chris-usb:~/Desktop$ sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log
sudo: unable to resolve host chris-usb
chris@chris-usb:~/Desktop$ sudo
sudo: unable to resolve host chris-usb
chris@chris-usb:~/Desktop$ dmesg > dmesg.log
chris@chris-usb:~/Desktop$

is the hist name crashing everything?

[uncloned (cjv01)]

I grabbed some screen captures

[uncloned (cjv01)]

the screen captures show the state of the networking

[Chris Vaisvil (chrisvaisvil)]

Hi - can I reformat the USB drive and reinstall Gutsy or does someone think they will need the failed Hardy intall?

[lasombra (lasombra)]

I installed Hardy Alpha 6. While booting with the newest kernel (2.6.24-12) the wireless card (atheros AR5211) is not present, although listed in lspci. While booting with the kernel 2.6.22 the network card is present but I cannot connect to the wireless network. With Gutsy all works fine.
The wireless network is an WPA-Personal, TKIP.

[lasombra (lasombra)]

With the actual version of the kernel and the network manager, my wireless card is recogized and active again. But as a further problem, I cannot connect to the wireless network (wpa personal, tkip). I stuck in "Waiting for the network key for the wireless network 'xxx'".
> uname -rv
2.6.24-15-386 #1 Tue Apr 8 00:00:14 UTC 2008

> apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.6.6-0ubuntu5
  Candidate: 0.6.6-0ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.6-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://ar.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

to look into network-manager issues we need a complete syslog attached taken _after_ reproducing the reported issue. Could you supplement your report accordingly? Thanks!

[Chris Vaisvil (chrisvaisvil)]

Where would I find this syslog?

The same thing happened when I tried to install Ubuntu Studio Hardy on a 32
gig USB stick

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Alexander Sack <email address hidden> wrote:

> to look into network-manager issues we need a complete syslog attached
> taken _after_ reproducing the reported issue. Could you supplement your
> report accordingly? Thanks!
>
> ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> --
> [HARDY] Wireless Ethernet (ath0) not working
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197344
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "network-manager" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Wireless connection does not show up in network manager
>
> This is the same USB Flash Drive installation where the update manger
> didn't install
> I can 't follow the instructions to fix the upgrade manager because I can't
> get on line.
> The install is usable locally but of course can not get out to the internet
> (going wired is not a convenient option but looks to be possible)
>
> If someone could tell me what file to find from the installation I will
> grab it off the drive and upload it.
>
> I am running Hardy on a Acer Aspire 5102WLMi laptop - and writing this from
> the same laptop running Gutsy
>
> Chris
>

[Chris Vaisvil (chrisvaisvil)]

Guys, I did reproduce the bug - can you please tell me where to find the file you want?

I just need some guidance if you want me to help.......

[Chris Vaisvil (chrisvaisvil)]

is this it?
Aug 20 23:54:30 studio syslogd 1.5.0#1ubuntu1: restart.
Aug 20 23:54:30 studio anacron[5649]: Job `cron.daily' terminated (exit status: 1) (mailing output)
Aug 20 23:54:30 studio anacron[5649]: Can't find sendmail at /usr/sbin/sendmail, not mailing output
Aug 20 23:54:30 studio anacron[5649]: Normal exit (1 job run)
Aug 20 23:55:36 studio dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Aug 20 23:55:43 studio dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
Aug 20 23:55:58 studio dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
Aug 20 23:56:07 studio dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
Aug 20 23:56:23 studio dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
Aug 20 23:56:37 studio dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Aug 20 23:56:37 studio dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
Aug 20 23:57:46 studio init: tty4 main process (4986) killed by TERM signal
Aug 20 23:57:46 studio init: tty5 main process (4987) killed by TERM signal
Aug 20 23:57:46 studio init: tty3 main process (5001) killed by TERM signal
Aug 20 23:57:46 studio init: tty2 main process (4995) killed by TERM signal
Aug 20 23:57:46 studio init: tty6 main process (5004) killed by TERM signal
Aug 20 23:57:46 studio init: tty1 main process (5797) killed by TERM signal
Aug 20 23:58:03 studio dhclient: There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.ath0.pid with pid 5953
Aug 20 23:58:03 studio dhclient: killed old client process, removed PID file
Aug 20 23:58:03 studio dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Aug 20 23:58:03 studio dhclient: Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
Aug 20 23:58:03 studio dhclient: All rights reserved.
Aug 20 23:58:03 studio dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Aug 20 23:58:03 studio dhclient:
Aug 20 23:58:03 studio dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Aug 20 23:58:03 studio dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Aug 20 23:58:03 studio dhclient: Listening on LPF/ath0/00:16:cf:20:ae:a3
Aug 20 23:58:03 studio dhclient: Sending on LPF/ath0/00:16:cf:20:ae:a3
Aug 20 23:58:03 studio dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback
Aug 20 23:58:09 studio dhclient: DHCPRELEASE on ath0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Aug 20 23:58:09 studio avahi-autoipd(ath0)[5829]: client: RTNETLINK answers: No such process
Aug 20 23:58:09 studio exiting on signal 15

[Chris Vaisvil (chrisvaisvil)]

everything from the var/log folder

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Closing the bug because of no response. Please reopen if this is still an issue.

[Chris Vaisvil (chrisvaisvil)]

what on earth do you expect the users to do?

frankly, problems with ubuntu studio wireless and then problems with running
any audio authoring app in regular ubuntu and then then these past issues
with wireless is just making me throw in the towel on ubuntu.

and its not that I did not try... I did, and I liked 7.10 - but why did
wireless get broken? it is not as if wireles is an obscure piece of hardware

it makes little sense to me..... and as an end user it is quite frustrating.
I really went out of my way to provide support information and yours, some 8
months later is the final response...

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Martin Mai <email address hidden> wrote:

> Closing the bug because of no response. Please reopen if this is still
> an issue.
>
> ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Invalid
>
> --
> [HARDY] Wireless Ethernet (ath0) not working
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197344
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "network-manager" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Wireless connection does not show up in network manager
>
> This is the same USB Flash Drive installation where the update manger
> didn't install
> I can 't follow the instructions to fix the upgrade manager because I can't
> get on line.
> The install is usable locally but of course can not get out to the internet
> (going wired is not a convenient option but looks to be possible)
>
> If someone could tell me what file to find from the installation I will
> grab it off the drive and upload it.
>
> I am running Hardy on a Acer Aspire 5102WLMi laptop - and writing this from
> the same laptop running Gutsy
>
> Chris
>

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Chris, I understand that there are many problem whiyh are very frustrating and, believe me, I didn't want to frustrate you even more; but there are currently about 50.000 bugs which all need someone to look at them and with each new release there are many bugs that gets fixed. Therefore we need to make sure that bugs related to one release of Ubuntu are still applicable to new releases, or - if not - specific packages can be backported to old releases.

Since not everyone has the hardware to test bugs concerning (for example) wireless networking, we have to ask in the bug report and are usually closing the bug after a month of no reply, as it happened here.

Again, I really don't want to frustrate anyone. It's just that we need to validate bugs after new releases. There is nothing wrong with reopening a bug if a problem persists.

Thanks.

[Chris Vaisvil (chrisvaisvil)]

Yes, I understand all that.... but this is a month shy of a year later for
something as basic as wireless.

And something else....

Setting up sound for a rosegarden like application in Vista is difficult
In Ubuntu it is a nightmare.... I've spent hours and hours trying to get it
to work - and when I resort to installing Ubuntu studio - it does not
support wireless and the interface... to me.... sucks.

You know - I'm all for promotion of Linux - but its hard to be out there
promoting Linux when basic stuff like wireless and sound is difficult as
hell (I got rosegarden to actually make a sound once.. and never again)

Perhaps this is a bridge too far for you guys?

The standard desktop functions nicely but perhaps one should concentrate on
the basics instead of Compiz....

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Martin Mai <email address hidden> wrote:

> Chris, I understand that there are many problem whiyh are very
> frustrating and, believe me, I didn't want to frustrate you even more;
> but there are currently about 50.000 bugs which all need someone to look
> at them and with each new release there are many bugs that gets fixed.
> Therefore we need to make sure that bugs related to one release of
> Ubuntu are still applicable to new releases, or - if not - specific
> packages can be backported to old releases.
>
> Since not everyone has the hardware to test bugs concerning (for
> example) wireless networking, we have to ask in the bug report and are
> usually closing the bug after a month of no reply, as it happened here.
>
> Again, I really don't want to frustrate anyone. It's just that we need
> to validate bugs after new releases. There is nothing wrong with
> reopening a bug if a problem persists.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> [HARDY] Wireless Ethernet (ath0) not working
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197344
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "network-manager" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Wireless connection does not show up in network manager
>
> This is the same USB Flash Drive installation where the update manger
> didn't install
> I can 't follow the instructions to fix the upgrade manager because I can't
> get on line.
> The install is usable locally but of course can not get out to the internet
> (going wired is not a convenient option but looks to be possible)
>
> If someone could tell me what file to find from the installation I will
> grab it off the drive and upload it.
>
> I am running Hardy on a Acer Aspire 5102WLMi laptop - and writing this from
> the same laptop running Gutsy
>
> Chris
>