Ubuntu can't use Atheros wifi on ACER ASPIRE ONE. It was the problem before I made enable madwifi. And on 8.10 Ubuntu too.

[nemethd]

Binary package hint: network-manager

Ubuntu can't use Atheros wifi on ACER ASPIRE ONE. It was the problem before I made enable madwifi. And on 8.10 Ubuntu too.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Gconf:

IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InterestingModules: ndiswrapper
Package: network-manager 0.7.1~rc3.2.gitb8fc83a7-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
WpaSupplicantLog:

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Your syslog clearly shows that the killswitch has disabled wireless which is why Network-Manager doesn't see it:

Mar 30 09:13:42 acer-one-dezsi NetworkManager: <info> starting...
Mar 30 09:13:42 acer-one-dezsi NetworkManager: <info> Found radio killswitch /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_acer_wmi_rfkill_acer_wireless_wlan
Mar 30 09:13:42 acer-one-dezsi NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver: 'r8169')
Mar 30 09:13:42 acer-one-dezsi NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1e_68_bf_fe_94
Mar 30 09:13:42 acer-one-dezsi NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the supplicant...
Mar 30 09:13:42 acer-one-dezsi NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the system settings daemon...
Mar 30 09:13:42 acer-one-dezsi NetworkManager: <info> Wireless now disabled by radio killswitch

I would suggest that you do a re-install and/or remove madwifi, it's been deprecated in favor of ath5k.

Does your device have a physical kill switch for the wireless?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.