Comment 0 for bug 82711

Testing on Compaq N410c and Dell Latitude D600 laptops - my wifi cards Just Work on both in Edgy, but not in Feisty. The cards are a Belkin F5D7010 (rt2500) and NetComm 54g (wg54t).

In both cases, the kernel detects the card okay and dhclient runs. However, the card doesn't seem to pull an address and gives itself a 169.254 address. e.g., from ifconfig:

ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:50:66:9B:5F
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3262 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:130480 (127.4 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000

ra0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:50:66:9B:5F
          inet addr:169.254.6.43 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000