Comment 1 for bug 95343

I see this, too.

 System: Dell Inspiron 2650
 Wifi card: Zonet 1701 (Ralink 2560)
 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
 Uname: Linux playroom 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
 Date: Sun 31 Mar 1007 17:50 (PDT)

I use a static IP address behind a Linksys WRT54G.

During boot the card's activation light comes on briefly, then goes out.

Toggling Admin->Network->Wireless does not ever restart it for me. The card's activation light comes on briefly in this case, also. The only things that work to restart it are commands "ifup" and "/etc/init.d/networking":

 : sudo ifup ra0

or

 : sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

The attached syslog file is the only one I could find that had any detailed trace of the failed network activation (actually, activation then de-activation)'. The last lines of that file, separated by a few minutes from the boot trace, are from my cli invocation of "/etc/init.d/networking restart".

"sudo lspci -v" shows, for the wifi card:
 02:04.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller
 Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 00f3
 Flags: bus master, stepping, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 10
 Memory at e8001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
 Memory window 0: 30000000-33fff000 (prefetchable)
 Memory window 1: 38000000-3bfff000
 I/O window 0: 00003400-000034ff
 I/O window 1: 00003800-000038ff
 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

 03:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
 Subsystem: RaLink Unknown device 2560
 Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
 Memory at 38000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
 Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

"/etc/network/interfaces" is
 # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
 # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

 # The loopback network interface
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback

 # The primary network interface
  iface ra0 inet static
 address 192.168.1.101
 netmask 255.255.255.0
 gateway 192.168.1.1
 wireless-essid <my-real-essid-instead-of-this-ersatz-essid>