IBM T30 wireless network card no longer working

[John McHugh]

The internal wireless card in my ibm t30 laptop is no longer working in feisty. I then loaded edgy onto the laptop to find that the wireless card works perfectly on it, until you download the updates. Then the wireless is broken again.

[Brett Clippingdale (brett-clippingdale)]

I had the same problem on my T30 (that is, with the Prism-based IBM internal wireless card, not the Cisco one).

The problem is that the hostap and orinoco kernel modules are competing for control of the card. This is mentioned as a likely problem on NetworkManager site:
(http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerHardware)

hostap: "Supports unencrypted, WEP, WPA, and WPA2 networks. Be aware that if you have both this driver and the 'orinoco' driver installed, they may fight for control of the wireless card and render it inoperable to NetworkManager. You should either disable one of these drivers, or ensure that only one driver is able to control the card."

I'd love to see this working by default; in the meantime, however, you can fix it easily:

1) Confirm you have the same kind of wireless card:

brett@boca:~$ lspci | grep Network
02:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)

2) If so, add the following to /etc/modprobe/blacklist:

(as root, ie. $sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, or $sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, and add the following lines)

blacklist orinoco
blacklist orinoco_pci
blacklist hermes
blacklist p80211
blacklist prism2_pci

Note that you have the option of blacklisting either the hostap modules or the orinoco ones, but the hostap are considerable more capable under NetworkManager, so keep the hostap ones (hostap, hostap_pci, plus ieee80211_crypt for any WPA card -- not specific to this one) which will all load by default. I was surprised I had to blacklist p80211 and prism2_pci, but it didn't fully work otherwise ... perhaps someone else can reason why.

3) reboot

After this, all should work nicely.

[John McHugh (mrmcq2u)]

I installed feisty from a different DVD image and the wireless seems to work
properly now, on roaming that is, I'm afraid to try and connect to my
network through another method like manually in case it breaks th wireless
and i need to reinstall again. Feel like a real idiot now, but the issue
seems to be fixed, its still broken in edgy though after you update that is.
Thanks for the quick replies and offered help on the subject. if i do find
the courage to try and connect to my access point manually and it breaks il
be sure to give you a shout though. Thanks again.

On 4/9/07, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> IBM T30 wireless network card no longer working
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104551
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
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[Brett Clippingdale (brett-clippingdale)]

This may be related to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/62685

[Brett Clippingdale (brett-clippingdale)]

Those with Prism 2 cards should also investigate updating the firmware, but exercise caution:

http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/

[John McHugh (mrmcq2u)]

after reinstalling ubuntu feisty the original problem has started to acure
again. in network my wireless card comes up as wifi(0) or something like
that but its listed as a wired network, I applied all the updates to feisty
and am now baffled at how it worked out of the box once but not again. When
it was working out of the box in the network manager it would be detected as
eth1 and as a wireless not wired connection. Brett I did what you said and
it just made things more confusing, now in network manager i have two
wireless connections wlan1 and wifi 0 , both are set to roaming. I cant
modify the settings to take them off roaming or to disable them. the wifi
network applet on the gnome pannel detects my wireless network but seems to
crash when trying to connect.

On 4/10/07, Brett Clippingdale <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Those with Prism 2 cards should also investigate updating the firmware,
> but exercise caution:
>
> http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/
>
> --
> IBM T30 wireless network card no longer working
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104551
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Brett Clippingdale (brett-clippingdale)]

If if wasn't broke, why fix it? You said "it worked out of the box
once," did you do anything to make it not work, or was it simply doing
updates?

Yes, you will see both wlan1 and wifi0, I see that also from CLI but
this hardly creates a problem. Though confusing, just ignore wifi0
and use wlan1.

This is no doubt frustrating for you, but to make progress in
diagnosing the root cause, try changing just one thing at a time if
possible. Constantly reinstalling just puts us back at square one, to
some degree.

So, to understand your current situation:

- Which of the install DVDs did you use this time?
- How are you determining that the cards are set to "roaming", why is
this a problem, and why do you want to disable them?

Please post the results of the following:
$uname -a
$lspci -v
$lsmod
$ifconfig -a
$iwconfig
$iwlist scanning

Brett

On 4/11/07, Tretle <email address hidden> wrote:
> after reinstalling ubuntu feisty the original problem has started to acure
> again. in network my wireless card comes up as wifi(0) or something like
> that but its listed as a wired network, I applied all the updates to feisty
> and am now baffled at how it worked out of the box once but not again. When
> it was working out of the box in the network manager it would be detected as
> eth1 and as a wireless not wired connection. Brett I did what you said and
> it just made things more confusing, now in network manager i have two
> wireless connections wlan1 and wifi 0 , both are set to roaming. I cant
> modify the settings to take them off roaming or to disable them. the wifi
> network applet on the gnome pannel detects my wireless network but seems to
> crash when trying to connect.
>
> On 4/10/07, Brett Clippingdale <email address hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Those with Prism 2 cards should also investigate updating the firmware,
> > but exercise caution:
> >
> > http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/
> >
> > --
> > IBM T30 wireless network card no longer working
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104551
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
>
> --
> IBM T30 wireless network card no longer working
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104551
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[John McHugh (mrmcq2u)]

well i did have it all working, then i tried to get beryl working but it
killed xserver, i fixed it to a degree but i was unable to get the
resolutions i was getting before :( I didnt back up the xorg.conf silly me.
To answer your question on which cd i am using, im using the same one that
worked out of box the last time, i labelled it ubuntu feisty beta working so
im sure of that. I have determined that both of the wifi settings are using
roaming through the network monitor bundled with feisty, I am unable to
change the settings of wither of them which means that they are both
enabled and this could be the problem. It detects my router downstairs but
wont connect.

the results you asked for are as follows,

tretle@tretle-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux tretle-laptop 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 20:37:49 UTC 2007
i686 GNU/Linux
tretle@tretle-laptop:~$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host
Bridge (rev 04)
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP
Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 96
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
        I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
        Memory behind bridge: d0100000-d01fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e8000000-efffffff

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
(prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at 1800 [size=32]

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
(prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
(prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
(prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=08, sec-latency=64
        I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00008fff
        Memory behind bridge: d0200000-dfffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f80fffff

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02) (prog-if
8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
        I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
        I/O ports at 1860 [size=16]
        Memory at 20000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp...

[John McHugh (mrmcq2u)]

I think i might have some useful info for you, when i was running the
install with the working wireless i used airsnort, these are the settings i
used for a successful scan : Network device : eth1 , Driver type :Host
AP/Orinoco . So is it the orinoco driver which sets the network device to
eth1. if so how do i set the orinoco driver to be the default wireless
network driver on my machine. When it was working it displeyed my wired
network connection as eth0 and my wireless as eth1. I hope that info can
prove useful to you.

On 4/11/07, John McHugh <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> well i did have it all working, then i tried to get beryl working but it
> killed xserver, i fixed it to a degree but i was unable to get the
> resolutions i was getting before :( I didnt back up the xorg.conf silly
> me. To answer your question on which cd i am using, im using the same one
> that worked out of box the last time, i labelled it ubuntu feisty beta
> working so im sure of that. I have determined that both of the wifi settings
> are using roaming through the network monitor bundled with feisty, I am
> unable to change the settings of wither of them which means that they are
> both enabled and this could be the problem. It detects my router downstairs
> but wont connect.
>
> the results you asked for are as follows,
>
>
> tretle@tretle-laptop:~$ uname -a
> Linux tretle-laptop 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 20:37:49 UTC 2007
> i686 GNU/Linux
> tretle@tretle-laptop:~$ lspci -v
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host
> Bridge (rev 04)
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
> Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> Capabilities: <access denied>
>
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP
> Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 96
> Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
> I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
> Memory behind bridge: d0100000-d01fffff
> Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e8000000-efffffff
>
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev
> 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
> Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
> I/O ports at 1800 [size=32]
>
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev
> 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
> Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
> I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]
>
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev
> 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
> Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A/T/X Series
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
> I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]
>
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
> (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
> Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=08, sec-latency=64
> I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00008fff
> Memory behind ...

[Brett Clippingdale (brett-clippingdale)]

One thing at a time, but I can give you the info you need for Beryl
in a separate thread. Getting Beryl/Compiz working right on the T30
is a huge chore, so let's get to that later.

Based on your output from iwconfig, it looks as though wlan0 is in
fact connected to the "belkin54g" network.

It would be interesting to isolate that from the wired connection.
What happens if you disconnect the ethernet cable used by eth0 and
then try the network connection? ie. ping yahoo.com to see if you
still have internet?

BTW, I'm tracking several bugs that may be related to your wireless
issues, including the following:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/73759/

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/42504/

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ndiswrapper/+bug/85468/

On 4/11/07, Tretle <email address hidden> wrote:
> I think i might have some useful info for you, when i was running the
> install with the working wireless i used airsnort, these are the settings i
> used for a successful scan : Network device : eth1 , Driver type :Host
> AP/Orinoco . So is it the orinoco driver which sets the network device to
> eth1. if so how do i set the orinoco driver to be the default wireless
> network driver on my machine. When it was working it displeyed my wired
> network connection as eth0 and my wireless as eth1. I hope that info can
> prove useful to you.
>
> On 4/11/07, John McHugh <email address hidden> wrote:
> >
> > well i did have it all working, then i tried to get beryl working but it
> > killed xserver, i fixed it to a degree but i was unable to get the
> > resolutions i was getting before :( I didnt back up the xorg.conf silly
> > me. To answer your question on which cd i am using, im using the same one
> > that worked out of box the last time, i labelled it ubuntu feisty beta
> > working so im sure of that. I have determined that both of the wifi settings
> > are using roaming through the network monitor bundled with feisty, I am
> > unable to change the settings of wither of them which means that they are
> > both enabled and this could be the problem. It detects my router downstairs
> > but wont connect.
> >
> > the results you asked for are as follows,
> >
> >
> > tretle@tretle-laptop:~$ uname -a
> > Linux tretle-laptop 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 20:37:49 UTC 2007
> > i686 GNU/Linux
> > tretle@tretle-laptop:~$ lspci -v
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host
> > Bridge (rev 04)
> > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
> > Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> > Capabilities: <access denied>
> >
> > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP
> > Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
> > Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 96
> > Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
> > I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
> > Memory behind bridge: d0100000-d01fffff
> > Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e8000000-efffffff
> >
> > 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev
> > 02) (pro...

[John McHugh (mrmcq2u)]

the orinoco drivers are running perfectly now, i just blacklisted hostap
instead of orinoco. i can go back to to hostap and chec

On 4/12/07, Brett Clippingdale <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> One thing at a time, but I can give you the info you need for Beryl
> in a separate thread. Getting Beryl/Compiz working right on the T30
> is a huge chore, so let's get to that later.
>
> Based on your output from iwconfig, it looks as though wlan0 is in
> fact connected to the "belkin54g" network.
>
> It would be interesting to isolate that from the wired connection.
> What happens if you disconnect the ethernet cable used by eth0 and
> then try the network connection? ie. ping yahoo.com to see if you
> still have internet?
>
> BTW, I'm tracking several bugs that may be related to your wireless
> issues, including the following:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/73759/
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/42504/
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ndiswrapper/+bug/85468/
>
> On 4/11/07, Tretle < <email address hidden>> wrote:
> > I think i might have some useful info for you, when i was running the
> > install with the working wireless i used airsnort, these are the
> settings i
> > used for a successful scan : Network device : eth1 , Driver type :Host
> > AP/Orinoco . So is it the orinoco driver which sets the network device
> to
> > eth1. if so how do i set the orinoco driver to be the default wireless
> > network driver on my machine. When it was working it displeyed my wired
> > network connection as eth0 and my wireless as eth1. I hope that info can
> > prove useful to you.
> >
> > On 4/11/07, John McHugh <email address hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > well i did have it all working, then i tried to get beryl working but
> it
> > > killed xserver, i fixed it to a degree but i was unable to get the
> > > resolutions i was getting before :( I didnt back up the xorg.confsilly
> > > me. To answer your question on which cd i am using, im using the same
> one
> > > that worked out of box the last time, i labelled it ubuntu feisty beta
> > > working so im sure of that. I have determined that both of the wifi
> settings
> > > are using roaming through the network monitor bundled with feisty, I
> am
> > > unable to change the settings of wither of them which means that they
> are
> > > both enabled and this could be the problem. It detects my router
> downstairs
> > > but wont connect.
> > >
> > > the results you asked for are as follows,
> > >
> > >
> > > tretle@tretle-laptop:~$ uname -a
> > > Linux tretle-laptop 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 20:37:49 UTC
> 2007
> > > i686 GNU/Linux
> > > tretle@tretle-laptop:~$ lspci -v
> > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset
> Host
> > > Bridge (rev 04)
> > > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
> > > Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> > > Capabilities: <access denied>
> > >
> > > 00: 01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset
> AGP
> > > Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
> > > Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latenc...

[Michael R. Head (burner)]

This is likely related to bug 63989

[John McHugh (mrmcq2u)]

still broken in hardy by the way

On Jul 31, 2007 2:51 AM, Michael R. Head <email address hidden> wrote:

> This is likely related to bug 63989
>
> --
> IBM T30 wireless network card no longer working
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104551
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