wireless broken after upgrade to 11.04 Natty

[Rick]

After upgrading my laptop from 10.10 to 11.04 I can no longer connect to my home wi-fi. It was working flawlessly for months before the upgrade. The network manager just keeps spinning and nothing happens.

dmesg output just keeps showing this over & over again:

[ 1721.748149] ipw2200 0000:03:03.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 1721.820199] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[ 1721.820204] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 1721.820319] ipw2200 0000:03:03.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 1721.820404] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[ 1721.955494] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
[ 1730.452961] ipw2200 0000:03:03.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 1730.523854] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[ 1730.523859] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 1730.523975] ipw2200 0000:03:03.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 1730.528062] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[ 1730.655407] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
[ 2822.733715] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
[ 2825.830079] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
[ 2828.909032] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
[ 2831.992010] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
[ 2835.107507] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
[ 2838.218445] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.

Any ideas what's going on here? Let me know what other info I can provide.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

[john h (johnlukerocks)]

i have the exact same problem with my acer extensa 5230 laptop it the network manager would keep loading and flashing and when it did connect it was running at 14kbs

so far i have not seen an answer to this problem

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 774049

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

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[TenaciousC (chris-kool4katz)]

Have made this connect outside of network-manager:

chris@laptop:~$ sudo service network-manager stop
network-manager stop/waiting
chris@laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"f2\x0D\xB71X\xA3Z%]\x05\x17X\xE9^\xD4\xAB\xB2\xCD\xC6\x9B\xB4T\x11\x0E\x82tA!=\xDC\x87"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
          Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

chris@laptop:~$ sudo iwconfig eth1 essid "TINTERWEB"
chris@laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"TINTERWEB"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
          Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

chris@laptop:~$ sudo iwlist eth1 encryption
eth1 2 key sizes : 40, 104bits
          4 keys available :
  [1]: off
  [2]: off
  [3]: off
  [4]: off
          Current Transmit Key: [1]

chris@laptop:~$ sudo iwconfig eth1 key restrictied `cat ~/wep`
chris@laptop:~$ sudo iwlist eth1 encryption
eth1 2 key sizes : 40, 104bits
          4 keys available :
  [1]: ****-****-****-****-****-****-** (104 bits)
  [2]: off
  [3]: off
  [4]: off
          Current Transmit Key: [1]
          Security mode:restricted

chris@laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"TINTERWEB"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point: 00:40:05:56:FC:1A
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
          Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=86/100 Signal level=-44 dBm Noise level=-89 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:13 Missed beacon:1

chris@laptop:~$ echo 'echo "iface eth1 inet dhcp" >> /etc/network/interfaces' | sudo sh
chris@laptop:~$ sudo ifup eth1
ssh stop/waiting
ssh start/running, process 1919
chris@laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:6f:49:c0:ce
          inet addr:192.168.5.116 Bcast:192.168.5.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::216:6fff:fe49:c0ce/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:14 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1849 (1.8 KB) TX bytes:10287 (10.2 KB)
          Interrupt:21 Memory:d0000000-d0...

[TenaciousC (chris-kool4katz)]

in the above the wep key is stored in a file ~/wep

 I have ****'d the key in the iwlist command.

[TenaciousC (chris-kool4katz)]

Apologies my posts above should have gone on to my bug for similar problem. These may not be relevant for this particular issue.