Wireless card on ThinkPad R60 does not work with Ubuntu 8.10 ( kernel 2.6.27)

[Vivek]

I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my IBM ThinkPad R60 laptop.

After installation when I click on the 'network connection' icon on the top right panel, it displays all the wireless networks available and also their signal strengths correctly.

On selecting an appropriate wireless network, the animated icon appears and a popup asks for the wireless key after which the following text is displayed when I get the mouse pointer over it:

Attempting to join wireless network 'abc'

After 1 or 2 minutes the connection fails and the the popup for wireless key appears again.

When I use the same wireless network with Windows XP, it works fine.

The enclosed attachment (attachment.tar.gz) contains output of the following commands:

vivek@vivek-laptop:~/tmp$ uname -a > uname-a.log
vivek@vivek-laptop:~/tmp$ cat /proc/version_signature > version.log
vivek@vivek-laptop:~/tmp$ dmesg > dmesg.log
vivek@vivek-laptop:~/tmp$ sudo lspci -vnvn > lspci-vnvn.log

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Can you also capture and attach /var/log/syslog when you have this issue ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager ). For example:

1) Begin capturing by running the following in a Terminal:

tail -n0 -f /var/log/syslog > /tmp/syslog

2) Then attempt to join your network, type in password, and wait for the connection to fail and you are prompted to enter your password again
3) Stop capturing - Ctrl-C
4) attach /tm/syslog to this bug report

Can you also verify you've specified the same encryption type in Network manager that is specified in Windows? Thanks.

[Vivek (vivekjain10)]

Hi Leann, as requested by you, I have attached the syslog

The Wireless Security used is 'WEP' and Authentication 'Open System'. I am using the same settings in Windows.

Thanks.

[Vivek (vivekjain10)]

One more point: I tried connecting to an unsecured network and it worked fine. This seems to be an issue only with secured wireless connections.

Thanks.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi Vivek,

This seems to be a duplicate of bug 292054 so I am marking it as such. It however appears this should be fixed with network-manager - 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1.8.10.1 . Please make sure you test this newer version. Thanks.