Wi-Fi sometimes disabled at boot -- Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG ipw2200

Bug #571179 reported by zonyl
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network-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

About 1 out of 3 boots on my HP TC4200, Wireless Networking is disabled upon logging in (I get an immediate notification that I am disconnected) requiring me to right click the network icon and 'enable'. I have been using 10.04 since December and this problem started happening around 1-2 weeks ago.

Linux tablet 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

02:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 12f5
 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: 64 (750ns min, 6000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
 Region 0: Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
 Kernel driver in use: ipw2200
 Kernel modules: ipw2200

Przemek K. (azrael)
affects: ubuntu → network-manager (Ubuntu)
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Flávio Etrusco (etrusco) wrote :

I have the same problem with an Ethernet connection.
Since I don't know much about network-manager internals, let's search for coincidences:
- Are there 2 connections with in network-manager? (right-click the "connection" icon, choose "Edit Connections...")
- Is your connection configured to be "Available to all users"? (mine isn't)
- What's your original installation? (mine was 9.10, gradually - and frequently - updated into 10.04)

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zonyl (zonyl) wrote :

@Flavio Yes, I have 2 connections, it isnt configured to all users, and my upgrade path has been ubuntu since Hardy much the same as yours.

I am currently having a problem with my suspend as well (logged in a different bug) where it locks up my machine with a black screen. I am beginning to wonder if the network gets disabled during a suspend and a hard reboot afterwards brings it up in disabled state? This may have seemed random to me before but it may be a pattern that I will pay attention to the next few days.

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zonyl (zonyl) wrote :
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Figured out the cause of this problem.

If I suspend my laptop and it hangs for whatever reason when I try and bring it back up (happens a lot due to a different issue), I will hard reboot (hold power button down) thus causing the issue. I would guess that the suspend portion is disabling the interface somehow that prevents it from loading immediately after failed resume and subsequent hard-reboot.

Syslog log from a suspend event:
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> Sleeping...
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): now unmanaged
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 2 -> 1 (reason 37)
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): cleaning up...
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): taking down device.
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): now unmanaged
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state change: 8 -> 1 (reason 37)
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): deactivating device (reason: 37).
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): canceled DHCP transaction, dhcp client pid 11035
May 1 21:52:57 tablet wpa_supplicant[992]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <WARN> check_one_route(): (eth1) error -34 returned from rtnl_route_del(): Sucess#012
May 1 21:52:57 tablet kernel: [18258.244603] tg3 0000:10:00.0: PME# enabled
May 1 21:52:57 tablet kernel: [18258.244633] tg3 0000:10:00.0: wake-up capability enabled by ACPI
May 1 21:52:57 tablet avahi-daemon[885]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.13.118 on eth1.
May 1 21:52:57 tablet avahi-daemon[885]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv4 with address 192.168.13.118.
May 1 21:52:57 tablet avahi-daemon[885]: Interface eth1.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS.
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): cleaning up...
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): taking down device.
May 1 21:52:57 tablet avahi-daemon[885]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::212:f0ff:febf:f6f0 on eth1.
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx): now unmanaged
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx): device state change: 3 -> 1 (reason 37)
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx): cleaning up...
May 1 21:52:57 tablet NetworkManager: <info> (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx): taking down device.
-- Hard reboot --
May 1 22:55:33 tablet NetworkManager: <info> starting...
May 1 22:55:33 tablet NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the modem-manager...
May 1 22:55:33 tablet kernel: [ 49.562509] type=1505 audit(1272768932.374:3): operation="profile_load" pid=615 name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action"
May 1 22:55:33 tablet NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: init!
May 1 22:55:33 tablet NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_system_hostname
May 1 22:55:33 tablet NetworkManager: SCPluginIfupdown: management mode: unmanaged
May 1 22:55:33 tablet NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:10:00.0/net/eth0, i...

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Thomas Hood (jdthood) wrote :

@zonyl: Hi, has this bug been fixed in Ubuntu 12.04?

summary: - Wireless Network disabled after initial boot (random)
+ Wi-Fi sometimes disabled at boot -- Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG ipw2200
Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for network-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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