Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] - Bluetooth & Wireless don't work

[marcocanto]

Hi,
I have installed ubuntu intrepid 8.10 64bit (alternate) on a new HP 8510W (T9300, ATI FireGL, Intel Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] ).
I think that bluetooth & wireless are on the same device, and both don't function.
The second is not visible at all. The first one instead is partial visible but doesn't funtion.

root@hp8510w:~# lspci|grep Wirel
10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
root@hp8510w:~# lsusb
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 08ff:2580 AuthenTec, Inc. AES2501 Fingerprint Sensor --> That is not the bluetoot device

root@hp8510w:~# uname -a
Linux hp8510w 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:06 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

root@hp8510w:~# iwconfig
.....
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=15 dBm
          Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

The problem is if I try to scan (or if try to connect that access point using nm-applet ) :

root@hp8510w:~# iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0 No scan results

Let me know if you need further information

In attach (dmes + lspci -vv + lsusb -vv)

[Arnaud Soyez (weboide)]

Confirmed.
I have:
 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
on a Toshiba Qosmio Harman/Kardon.
Exactly same behaviour.
Intrepid 8.10

[Arnaud Soyez (weboide)]

Here's my: dmesg, lspci -vv, lsusb -vv

[Ing0R (ing0r)]

Some laptops have hardware switches for wifi and bluetooth. Do you have such a switch and is it enabled?
On an old kernel I had to have this switch enabled at boot time to use my wifi on a Thinkpad R61.

[Keng-Yu Lin (lexical)]

Unfortunately it seems this bug is still an issue. Can you confirm this issue exists with the most recent Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 release - http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-desktop . Please let us know your results. Thanks.

[Mio (m10)]

I have found to have the same issue on a sony vaio vgn-fz31s.
Upgrading to Jaunty did not help.
I can further confirm that bluetooth does work when either it is switched on (hardware switch) at boot time or by issuing the command
sudo hciconfig hci0 reset
after having switched it on after boot.

lspci|grep Wirel
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)

uname -r
2.6.28-11-generic

[Mio (m10)]

is there maybe a method to issue that command (hciconfig hci0 reset) automatically when the switch is triggered?

ps i forgot to mention i'm on 32bit ubuntu

[Mio (m10)]

this seems to be fixed in Natty..