wireless ethernet card no longer recognized in karmic

[Matthew Darwin]

lshw -C network
 (omit working card)
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@0000:04:03.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=32 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10
       resources: memory:fdaf0000-fdafffff

lspci -vv
04:03.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
        Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Device 3a1b
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 32 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
        Region 0: Memory at fdaf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
        Kernel modules: ath5k

The computer was upgraded from jaunty where this worked fine.

"ifconfig wlan0" returns "wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found"

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: VT82xx [HDA VIA VT82xx], device 0: ALC861-VD Analog [ALC861-VD Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: cinema 1591 F.... knotify4
                      cinema 1613 F.... kmix
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'VT82xx'/'HDA VIA VT82xx at 0xcfffc000 irq 17'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC861-VD'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0862,1565c601,00100001'
   Controls : 35
   Simple ctrls : 20
Date: Fri Oct 16 18:34:03 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=8216bf7d-fc44-46dd-9653-dfe00bd760fd
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
MachineType: BIOSTAR Group P4M90-M7
Package: linux-image 2.6.31.14.27
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=420ab1a8-76a9-456f-8fd5-b04c1a1b74e7 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-14-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.23
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux-meta
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
WpaSupplicantLog:

dmi.bios.date: 01/05/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: P4M90-M7
dmi.board.vendor: BIOSTAR Group
dmi.board.version: Ver:1.0
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: BIOSTAR Group
dmi.chassis.version: P4M90-M7
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd01/05/2007:svnBIOSTARGroup:pnP4M90-M7:pvrVer1.0:rvnBIOSTARGroup:rnP4M90-M7:rvrVer1.0:cvnBIOSTARGroup:ct3:cvrP4M90-M7:
dmi.product.name: P4M90-M7
dmi.product.version: Ver:1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: BIOSTAR Group

[Matthew Darwin (bugs-mdarwin)]

I reboot back into

Linux 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 19:25:34 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

and I have the same problem.

So it is not a linux kernel problem... something else changed that no longer makes my ethernet card work.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

[This is an automated message. Apologies if it has reached you inappropriately.]

This bug was reported against the linux-meta package when it likely should have been reported against the linux package instead. We are automatically transitioning this to the linux kernel package so that the appropriate teams are notified and made aware of this issue.

If this bug really is a bug in the linux-meta package you can move it back to linux-meta and set the Status to Confirmed, or contact us on the #ubuntu-kernel channel on the FreeNode IRC server. Thanks.

[^_Pepe_^ (jose-angel-fernandez-freire)]

Hi Matthew,

Please, can you tell us whether this is still an issue for you? If so, please, can you check the 2.6.32 kernel version, placed at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.32/ and come back with feedback?

Thanks in advance.

[Matthew Darwin (bugs-mdarwin)]

Hi, I bought a new card so I'll need to put the old card back in a different machine and test it.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu development release http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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