[jaunty] Network Manager no longer sees wireless networks

[Justin Newman]

Binary package hint: network-manager

An update today (March 2) broke the wireless on my Compaq CQ-60-216DX. There wasn't actually a network-manager update, so that's not really the problem, but the wireless module is still loaded, so I'm not sure what package to tag.

I've included the output of lspci and lsmod below. Let me know if there's anything else that would be helpful.

lspci | grep wireless
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

lsmod
http://pastebin.com/f1d442c4

[Justin Newman (eqisow)]

just a note: the wireless is working on my CQ-50 running 8.04, so the network is OK. Below is ifconfig, iwconfig, and daemon.log. I left wmaster0 in the output of ifconfig because I'm not actually sure what it is.

ifconfig:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:2b:40:1c:d9
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-24-2B-40-1C-D9-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=20 dBm
          Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

[Justin Newman (eqisow)]

Manual configuration doesn't seem to work either.

sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Produces:

wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:24:2b:40:1c:d9
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:24:2b:40:1c:d9
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9

after that, the output of 'dmesg | tail' is:

[ 515.755691] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 5214.899364] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 5312.991194] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 5379.427207] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 5639.977446] r8169: eth0: link up
[ 5650.336018] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 5741.494716] r8169: eth0: link up
[ 5741.541645] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 5752.156051] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 5884.663725] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

The /etc/network/interfaces I created is attached.

[syscon-hh (syscon-kono)]

Have a look to bug # 336915 - may be the reason

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

I have a similar kind of problem. Updated from 8.10 to 9.04 dev, now Network Manager tells just that wireless is not available (it's grey). However, iwconfig shows I've wlan0, and I can manually setup the connection just fine (via iwconfig or /etc/network/interfaces & ifup).

Usually when one has wlan0 in /etc/network/interfaces, network manager skips it (or has the behavior changed?) so that it's manually managed, but no matter if I remove it or add wlan0 to interfaces, network manager does not give an access to wireless. On the time of update, there was no wlan0 in the interfaces file.

So far, I have no idea what's wrong, or what other aspects besides the interfaces file could affect this.

[autasis (k-sijtsma)]

After installing jaunty on my late 2008 imac the driver was installed automatically (STA Broadcom). Networkmanager told me that wireless was not available. Solved the problem by deactivating and activating the driver in the hardware manager.

[FluxCapacitor (blingstatus)]

I'm having a similar issue using Ubuntu 9.04 server. I cannot set up a connection to the WPA network in my home. I have tried both broadcasted ESSID and not. The chipset is RTL8187B.

I cannot receive a DHCP IP, yet all my other computers will work with DHCP. Also, I tried to boot from an ubuntu desktop 9.04 cd and was able to make a connection through network manager. I was not able to find out the manual configuration info that worked for network manager though. After some reading I determined that nm doesn't store it's info anywhere "typical".

I also tried setting up the connection using a static IP and this works some of the time, and some of the time not. When it does give me an IP I am only able to ping LAN addresses and not able to get out to the internet.

I tried this workaround:

KERNEL=="regulatory*", ACTION=="change", SUBSYSTEM=="platform", RUN+="sbin//crda"

This was linked a couple posts up for anyone confused as to what I'm talking about. When I opened the file, it had been patched to have two slashes like I pasted here. This is apparently wrong and the patch that's in the repository that people are getting pushed to them is not right. It should only have one slash between sbin and crda. Stil, though, no dice. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

I encourage anyone wishing to recreate this issue to try what's outlined in this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202834

I have tried just about everything I can think of and have searched all over to find people with a similar problem. It seems that the people having the issue is not a large group due to many using nm to configure their wireless. I do not want to install the ubuntu-desktop package on my server installation on my laptop (don't ask why i installed server on my laptop :P)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release the Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[FluxCapacitor (blingstatus)]

Hmm, this doesn't seem like something I reported... I did however have a LOT
of issues trying to get my wireless to work on my ubuntu server through the
command prompt when it would work using a gui and the network-manager. This
was using WPA2 by the way. Anyway, keep up the great work, I love the OS
and am always excited to see the new release come to life.

--Jonathan M

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be
> reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the
> development release the Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you
> could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next
> release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release
> at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your
> help.
>
> ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> --
> [jaunty] Network Manager no longer sees wireless networks
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337076
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: network-manager
>
> An update today (March 2) broke the wireless on my Compaq CQ-60-216DX.
> There wasn't actually a network-manager update, so that's not really the
> problem, but the wireless module is still loaded, so I'm not sure what
> package to tag.
>
> I've included the output of lspci and lsmod below. Let me know if there's
> anything else that would be helpful.
>
> lspci | grep wireless
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg
> Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
>
> lsmod
> http://pastebin.com/f1d442c4
>

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[syscon-hh (syscon-kono)]

Has been fixed with wireless-crda_1.11 issued 2009, Dec. 1st