[Regression] Wireless Atheros AR5005G 802.11abg NIC

[George]

Edgy does not get wireless working with this card (Aspire 3680 laptop) where Dapper had no problems.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

Please be sure you have linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-generic installed. Usually you can do:

sudo apt-get install linux-generic to make sure you have all packages installed correctly.

[Daniel Gagnon (redalastor)]

On 10/21/06, Ben Collins <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Please be sure you have linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-generic
> installed. Usually you can do:
>
> sudo apt-get install linux-generic to make sure you have all packages
> installed correctly.
>

Can't do, I get no Internet access without wifi so apt-get will fail.

[Hedero (hedero)]

I too have an Atheros problem. I believe my card is the 5212. I use the DLink DWL-G650. The card is seen, signal strength at 85%-90%. Will not associate to AP. Worked like a charm in Dapper. I have to plug-in to ethernet to get internet. Let me know if you want any specific information (terminal outputs, etc.). I am a newb and would need some slight instruction to get the info you may need. BTW, ath0 shows up in iwconfig, but not in ifconfig.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Has everybody here installed linux-generic like Ben asked for? In a Terminal window, type:
sudo apt-get install linux-generic
Then you can verify with:
dpkg -l linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-generic
and it should list it with "ii" at the beginning of the line.

Maybe the output of "iwconfig" would be interesting to have attached here.

[tuxo (beat-fasel)]

I have actually just posted some input to the bug Bug #67546, which is a duplicate bug of this one.

Ok, I repeat what I posted there:

--------------- snip ------------
I can confirm this bug. I tried to install from the Ubuntu Edgy RC Live CD, but my network card would not get detected. The live cd even froze on me later during installation (during the "Installing software" part).

Ok, I downloaded the RC alternate CD. During the installation procedure, three network interfaces were detected. wifi0, ath0 and eth0. Well, I have only two cards, the Atheros-based Wifi (ath0) card and the Ethernet card (eth0). Selecting either wifi0 or ath0 did not allow me to connect to my network which is completely open. Only eth0 worked. Ok, again the installer chocked during the "software installation" part, put at least I could finish the installation and reboot. I was thrown to the command prompt though. Ok, I manually added the repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list and did a apt-get update followed by apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. I could download everthing via the ethernet connection from the Ubuntu servers. After finishing, I rebootet my computer and everything worked, apart, alas, wifi was and still is not working.

Here is the output of lspci (only the network controllers shown):
 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

As you can see, I have the same chip as the original bug reporter of the duplicate bug #67546.

The modules are loaded:
 $ lsmod | grep ath
 ath_pci 100000 0
 ath_rate_sample 16512 1 ath_pci
 wlan 207580 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
 ath_hal 192976 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample

Output of ifconfing:
 $ ifconfig
 ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:A2:30:C4:AC
           inet6 addr: fe80::20f:a3ff:fe40:c4ac/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:1B:3D:97:E8
           inet addr:192.168.123.103 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::230:1bff:fe3d:97e8/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
           RX packets:68650 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:40490 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:94239289 (89.8 MiB) TX bytes:3246866 (3.0 MiB)
           Interrupt:209 Base address:0xc000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0F-A2-30-C4-AC-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
           UP BROADC...

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Is this still a problem in 7.04?

[tuxo (beat-fasel)]

Re: Is this still a problem in 7.04?

As I got tired of this bug, I bought a new wireless card (Ralink based) in the meanwhile and therefore cannot give feedback on this issue anymore. Sorry.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.