Comment 18 for bug 194091

My problem was not due to Ubuntu. It was a hardware issue caused erratic
behaviour. My Acer Aspire 5720 is now dual booting with Vista and after
the repair made by Acer I don't have a problem as often as before.

I find that when the battery is fully charged the network card is
recognised but does not work - with either operating system - but if I
run off the battery for 5 minutes and then reboot that both operating
systems deal with the network device again.

I downloaded 8.10 Alpha 6 today so that I could provide feedback as to
how it works on the notebook. After about 3 hours I've given up trying
to get it running in non-install mode on the notebook. I downloaded the
AMD 64 bit version and have tried that on my desktop machine and like
what I see.

I burnt the 32 bit version for the notebook at 4X rather than the
maximum speed of 52X and verified it. I also let the Ubuntu install
check the CD and it was 100% OK.

On the notebook I'm opting for running off the CD. The wireless network
indicator light comes on as does the blue tooth light. Under 8.04 the
wireless network light was not turned on even though wireless networking
was enabled.

The run from CD process (notebook) goes through the usual progress bar
stuff, brings up the X mouse cursor and the beige background then the
wait cursor. The wait cursor is static (ie no rotation effect). It is
now over 1/2 hour since this has been the case on the Acer notebook and
will probably be the case until hell freezes over or the power fails and
the battery dies.

Regards
John

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:14 +0000, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> I have some problem with this card ans nm too.
>
> Sometimes nm doesn't associate to the network (hidden) and I have to
> select it manually from the "connect to other network" dialog.
>
> I'm pretty sure this was working with my previous laptop with an ipw2200
> card
>