[eeepc 1005ha] wifi "device not ready" in nm-applet

[harrismc]

Binary package hint: network-manager

I have an issue with nm-applet on my ASUS EeePC 1005HA (Royal Blue).

Started in Karmic Koala, on system boot no wifi networks would be available under nm-applet, and under "Wireless Networks" it would say "device not ready". Restarting Ubuntu, restarting the wifi radio using the hardware keys, or restarting the wifi radio by using the EeePC Tray would sometimes work.

Now in Lucid this problem is no longer sporadic but present upon every system boot.

To get it to work now, I have to boot to windows XP, turn the wifi radio on and off using the keyboard shortcut, then connect to the wifi network, then restart into ubuntu and turn the wifi on and off with the keyboard shortcut, and then sometimes it works. If that doesn't work, I try to turn the wifi on and off again using keyboard shortcut, the eeepc tray, and restart /etc/init.d/networking. Sometimes this works.

I have tried installing wicd and madwifi-ng but this hasn't affected the problem.

Related Ubuntu Forums post: http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9382970#post9382970

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.8-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.8-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 0.8-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Iv (ivor-stodolsky)]

I also have this problem. Is anyone working on this? Is this the same as Bug #854712 ?

[philippe-pachot (philippe-pachot)]

This really look like my problem (#879287 )

[penalvch (penalvch)]

harrismc, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 587498
When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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