Atheros card not working in intrepid since 4 or 5 days ago

[Daryl Lublink]

I am running both hardy and intrepid on my computer. Running in Hardy, the card works fine. In Intrepid about 4 or 5 days ago I ran an update and the wireless card doesn't work. I suspect it is a change in the kernel.

Network manager icon does not appear in the bar in ubuntu and when I try and connect using the command line it doesn't connect.

Commands I typed :
{{{
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 essid 'senn09'
iwconfig wlan0 key "01020304050607080a0b0c0d0e"
iwconfig wlan0 key "00000000000000000000000000"
ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhclient wlan0
}}}

This clip is from hardy ( dmesg ) :
{{{
[ 43.253459] wifi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
[ 43.253467] wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
[ 43.253471] wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
[ 43.253480] wifi0: turboA rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
[ 43.253487] wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
[ 43.253491] wifi0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5 GHz radio 1.7 2 GHz radio 2.3
[ 43.253496] wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
[ 43.253499] wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
[ 43.253501] wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
[ 43.253503] wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
[ 43.253505] wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
[ 43.253507] wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
[ 43.273013] wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x90080000, irq=11

}}}

Intrepid /var/log/messages :
{{{
Aug 10 11:45:26 david-laptop klogd: [ 76.261156] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Aug 10 11:45:26 david-laptop pulseaudio[6276]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
Aug 10 11:45:26 david-laptop pulseaudio[6276]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Aug 10 11:45:26 david-laptop pulseaudio[6276]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
Aug 10 11:45:26 david-laptop pulseaudio[6276]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 37286 Hz.
Aug 10 11:45:26 david-laptop pulseaudio[6276]: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't support 2 channels, changed to 1.
Aug 10 11:45:44 david-laptop klogd: [ 94.968243] gvfsd-trash[6471]: segfault at b731e546 ip b731e546 sp bfce3a60 error 4 in libgvfsdbus.so[b7396000+20000]
Aug 10 11:45:44 david-laptop klogd: [ 94.977131] gvfsd-trash[6480]: segfault at b7152546 ip b7152546 sp bff17770 error 4 in libgvfsdbus.so[b71ca000+20000]
Aug 10 11:45:45 david-laptop klogd: [ 96.202092] gvfsd-trash[6550]: segfault at b72b9546 ip b72b9546 sp bfb7dbd0 error 4 in libgvfsdbus.so[b7331000+20000]
Aug 10 11:46:48 david-laptop klogd: [ 158.900847] type=1503 audit(1218383208.699:6): operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="r::" denied_mask="r::" fsuid=7 name="/proc/7657/net/" pid=7657 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
Aug 10 11:46:48 david-laptop klogd: [ 158.900881] type=1503 audit(1218383208.699:7): operation="socket_create" family="ax25" sock_type="dgram" protocol=0 pid=7657 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
Aug 10 11:46:48 david-laptop klogd: [ 158.900888] type=1503 audit(1218383208.699:8): operation="socket_create" family="netrom" sock_type="seqpacket" protocol=0 pid=7657 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
Aug 10 11:46:48 david-laptop klogd: [ 158.900896] type=1503 audit(1218383208.699:9): operation="socket_create" family="rose" sock_type="dgram" protocol=0 pid=7657 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
Aug 10 11:46:48 david-laptop klogd: [ 158.900903] type=1503 audit(1218383208.699:10): operation="socket_create" family="ipx" sock_type="dgram" protocol=0 pid=7657 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
Aug 10 11:46:48 david-laptop klogd: [ 158.900910] type=1503 audit(1218383208.699:11): operation="socket_create" family="appletalk" sock_type="dgram" protocol=0 pid=7657 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
Aug 10 11:46:48 david-laptop klogd: [ 158.900917] type=1503 audit(1218383208.699:12): operation="socket_create" family="econet" sock_type="dgram" protocol=0 pid=7657 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
Aug 10 11:46:48 david-laptop klogd: [ 158.900925] type=1503 audit(1218383208.699:13): operation="socket_create" family="ash" sock_type="dgram" protocol=0 pid=7657 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
Aug 10 11:46:48 david-laptop klogd: [ 158.900932] type=1503 audit(1218383208.699:14): operation="socket_create" family="x25" sock_type="seqpacket" protocol=0 pid=7657 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
Aug 10 11:46:48 david-laptop klogd: [ 158.900968] type=1503 audit(1218383208.699:15): operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::r" denied_mask="::r" fsuid=7 name="/proc/7657/net/dev" pid=7657 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
Aug 10 11:47:33 david-laptop klogd: [ 203.784696] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Aug 10 11:48:27 david-laptop klogd: [ 257.249179] [drm] Num pipes: 1
Aug 10 11:48:27 david-laptop bonobo-activation-server (david-9269): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-UegSIfLX5U: Connection refused
Aug 10 11:48:29 david-laptop klogd: [ 259.757852] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Aug 10 11:48:31 david-laptop exiting on signal 15

}}}

This is from intrepid dmesg:
{{{
[ 17.100926] ath5k_pci 0000:02:04.0: registered as 'phy0'
[ 17.222333] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
[ 17.783514] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x1b6eb1, caps: 0xa84793/0x100000
[ 17.783581] serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio4/input0
[ 17.827209] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input7
[ 18.034812] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR5213 chip found (MAC: 0x56, PHY: 0x41)
[ 18.034867] ath5k phy0: RF5111 5GHz radio found (0x17)
[ 18.034914] ath5k phy0: RF2111 2GHz radio found (0x23)
[ 18.660214] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -140503980 ns)

}}}

Intrepid ( from /var/log/debug ) :
{{{
Aug 8 09:34:19 david-laptop klogd: [ 19.322262] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
Aug 8 09:34:32 david-laptop klogd: [ 41.595282] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
Aug 8 09:34:32 david-laptop klogd: [ 41.595301] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:03:52:07:da:70
Aug 8 09:34:32 david-laptop klogd: [ 41.601460] wlan0: RX authentication from 00:03:52:07:da:70 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
Aug 8 09:34:32 david-laptop klogd: [ 41.601475] wlan0: authenticated
Aug 8 09:34:32 david-laptop klogd: [ 41.601485] wlan0: associate with AP 00:03:52:07:da:70
Aug 8 09:34:32 david-laptop klogd: [ 41.603140] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:03:52:07:da:70 (capab=0x21 status=0 aid=4)
Aug 8 09:34:32 david-laptop klogd: [ 41.603154] wlan0: associated
Aug 8 09:34:32 david-laptop klogd: [ 41.603183] wlan0: CTS protection enabled (BSSID=00:03:52:07:da:70)
Aug 8 09:34:32 david-laptop klogd: [ 41.603193] wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:03:52:07:da:70)
Aug 8 09:34:32 david-laptop klogd: [ 41.603725] wlan0: disassociate(reason=3)

}}}

But it never gets an IP address.

Some of lspci output :
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in linux the kernel package in Launchpad.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

It'd be helpful to know which kernel version you are experiencing this with. The output of the command 'uname -a' will let us know.

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

The kernel running is "Linux david-laptop 2.6.26-5-generic #1 SMP Sun Aug 3 01:25:54 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux" but I can not for sure say the problem is kernel related. The network manager should appear in Gnome whether or not the kernel driver is working properly, so let's start by pointing out the missing icon. I noticed the package was updated "2008-08-07 09:48:56 status installed network-manager-gnome 0.6.6-0ubuntu3", so let's start here. How can I debug this package and find out why it is not working?

[Daryl Lublink (dlublink)]

I did some research and the package network-manager-gnome was not installed on my system. I think that an update must have gone 'funny' and the package was lost. I reinstalled intrepid freshly and the network is working again. Since I can not reproduce the error and the information in this ticket is not clear, I think it is best to close the ticket.

[Jorn Eriksen (jorn-fintracon)]

I have a Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile V6535 and had this problem
I tried all kinds of things with backports etc however when I finally looked at this:
http://madwifi-project.org/ticket/1192
and then download the latest HAL version.
Followed
http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo
to install it
and, voilà, after a restart it worked again :-)

Jorn