Wireless fails to properly load on boot

[dennis1200]

I have 32bit Dapper, a Broadcom 4318 wireless card built in with ndiswrapper, and a heck of a time getting wireless to work. This isn't everywhere, but at my home and school it happens.

My /etc/network/interfaces file seems to be configured correctly; if I enter /etc/init.d/networking restart, it will connect to my network, a 40-bit WEP encrypted wireless network, and quickly obtain an IP address. Not on boot however. In all the locations I've been, the card connects to an unsecured network, or, if there isn't one around, hangs until it times out (not fun). I've tried reordering the boot sequence so that networking is started later on, adding pre-up sleep commands to interfaces, and cutting it out of boot altogether. My current solution is to have it load on boot (there's an unsecured network around, so it connects quickly) and then I put in a networking restart into rc.local, which does the trick.

I have stumbled around with the 4318 (as many before me, and many to come), and finally figured out the need for Open mode to get it to connect correctly. Here is my interfaces file:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

#iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless-essid XXXXXX
wireless-key open XXXXXXX

Since it works from within GNOME to restart networking, I feel that interfaces is written correctly. There's an Ubuntuforums thread describing my efforts: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=323177

The last lead was a peek at dmesg, which indicated that:
[17179626.200000] eth1: no IPv6 routers present

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still unresolved/reproducible on current 8.04 or 8.10 alpha?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Unfortunately this bug report is being closed because we received no response to the last inquiry for information. However, the Intrepid Ibex 8.10 Beta release was most recently announced - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/beta . If you are able to confirm this is still an issue with this most recent release please feel free to reopen this report. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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