Aironet Wireless network card doesn't work

[joenix]

Hi,

I just installed Ubuntu Dapper flight 7 and my wireless network card doesn't work anymore. It used to work in Breezy.
I can scan for networks and I can see my wireless network, I can set the key, but DHCP fails.
My network card is a Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card, my PC is a Toshiba Satellite A60 laptop.

Thanks,
Jeroen

[joenix (woutersj)]

This is the output of dhclient for 'dhclient eth1'

[joenix (woutersj)]

The output of ifconfig -a on my system

[joenix (woutersj)]

Output of dmesg

[joenix (woutersj)]

Output of lsmod

[joenix (woutersj)]

I have tried the newest stable kernel (2.6.16.16), but that didn't help. I tried Fedora Core 5 (also 2.6.16), but it showed the same symptoms. The Release Notes for fc5 do say that the "pcmcia framework used by laptop and mobile devices has changed." Perhaps this is the cause?

[joenix (woutersj)]

I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 and Windows XP on the same system and the wireless card works in both of these operating systems.

[joenix (woutersj)]

I have just been trying different versions of firmware for the network card and now it works again!
I'll try to see which versions of firmware work and which don't (if I can find the time and if some actually is interested in fixing this, if so, please respond)

[Jonathan Blue (imsoblue)]

Hello,

what firmware version are you using? I can't get my Aironet 350 PCMCIA card to work with Dapper.

Thanks,
Jonathan

[joenix (woutersj)]

Hi Jonathan,

I noticed you sent me this question earlier. I didn't have time then and I
totally forgot about it afterwards. I'm terribly sorry. Please let me know
if there is anything else I can help you with.

See you,
Jeroen

On 6/10/06, Jonathan Blue <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> what firmware version are you using? I can't get my Aironet 350 PCMCIA
> card to work with Dapper.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
> --
> Aironet Wireless network card doesn't work
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/44733
>

[Jonathan Blue (imsoblue)]

Jeroen,

Thanks a lot for your help, it seems to work with firmware 5.20.17, but only in unsecured mode. I had no luck with WEP 64 or 128 bit at all - seems to be a problem in the Ubuntu driver.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[joenix (woutersj)]

Finally someone seems to have found a solution to the WEP problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=318884
I did have to do 'sudo iwconfig eth1 key [1]' (without the actual key) afterwards to activate the right key.

Jeroen

[joenix (woutersj)]

Hi,

This problem is still present in Gutsy Tribe 5.
Disabling NetworkManager and adding these lines to /etc/network/interfaces fixes the problem.

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless-essid <your essid here>
wireless-key [1] <your key here>

Jeroen

[Gareth Fitzworthington (mapping-gp-deactivatedaccount)]

Cisco has drivers for this. These appears to be binary closed source drivers.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/102/wlan/linux.html

Perhaps there is a case for inclusion of these in the Restricted Driver set. Maybe there already there?? Can someone check? (System -> Administration -> Restricted Drivers Manager)
Marking against Gutsy.

[Gareth Fitzworthington (mapping-gp-deactivatedaccount)]

Can anyone else confirm this against later releases (preferably Gutsy and/or Hardy)?

[joenix (woutersj)]

I am running a 2.6.22-14 kernel on Hardy. The problem is no longer present under this setup.
I am unable to test against the most recent kernel, since bug 189398 prevents me from using the card under the newer kernels.

I personally would not like to see the closed source Cisco driver being used in Ubuntu. The open source drivers used to work perfectly, I think we should focus our efforts on getting them fixed.

[andy8co (tinfoiltop)]

Hi, I am running a armada m300 with an aironet 350.
I have been trying to get my wpa up and running, and after lots of searching I began to realize that it doesn't support wpa. Or I might be wrong.
Is there a definitive list of what can and can't be done with the airo driver?

[Jayson Rowe (jayson.rowe)]

Since it's been a very long time since any additional info was added to this bug, I'm just checking to see if this is still an issue, and find out what additional work should be done on this bug.

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

The 18 month support period for Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 has reached its end of life -
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.10-eol . As a result, we are closing the
linux-source-2.6.22 kernel task. It would be helpful if you could test the
new Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 release and confirm if this issue remains -
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904overview. If the issue still exists with the Jaunty
release, please update this report by changing the Status of the "linux (Ubuntu)"
task from "Incomplete" to "New". Also please be sure to run the command below
which will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this
report. Thanks in advance.

apport-collect -p linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic 44733