The Acer TravelMate 290 requires the user to initially boot into WinXP and use the wireless card before warm rebooting into Ubunut 10.04.1 i386 Desktop to active the wireless card. I think the root cause of this is the physical Radio Frequency Kill Switch. In both tests the switch is set to enable the wireless card; for some reason on a cold boot, linux *thinks* this is set to the disabled position:
Bad (10.04.1) Cold Boot
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[ 72.049547] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[ 72.049551] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 72.204576] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:03.0: ISA IRQ mask 0x0830, PCI irq 10
[ 72.204581] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:03.0: Socket status: 30000006
[ 72.204587] pci_bus 0000:02: Raising subordinate bus# of parent bus (#02) from #02 to #06
[ 72.204599] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:03.0: pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0xa000 - 0xbfff
[ 72.204604] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0xa000-0xbfff: clean.
[ 72.205130] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:03.0: pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xd0000000 - 0xdfffffff
[ 72.205134] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:03.0: pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x90000000 - 0x9fffffff
[ 72.205842] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
[ 72.205853] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
[ 72.205865] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[ 72.206897] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[ 72.206953] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: firmware: requesting ipw2200-bss.fw
[ 73.666276] ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
[ 73.666279] Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.
[ 73.667694] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
Good (10.04.1) Warm Reboot from WinXP
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[ 73.782084] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[ 73.782089] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 73.782193] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
[ 73.782205] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
[ 73.782217] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[ 73.783154] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[ 73.783210] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: firmware: requesting ipw2200-bss.fw
[ 75.204534] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
[ 75.316138] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x230-0x237
lshw data pertaining to the wireless card:
*-network:1 DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:02:02.0
logical name: eth1
version: 05
serial: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.2kmprq firmware=ABG:9.0.5.27 (Dec 12 2007) latency=128 link=no maxlatency=24 mingnt=3 multicast=yes wireless=radio off
resources: irq:10 memory:d0000000-d0000fff
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
Cannot stat file /proc/2763/fd/44: Stale NFS file handle
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 2781 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'I82801DBICH4'/'Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with ALC250 at irq 10'
Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC250 rev 2'
Components : 'AC97a:414c4752'
Controls : 33
Simple ctrls : 21
CurrentDmesg:
[ 109.896095] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Command timed out.
[ 118.444053] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Command timed out.
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386 (20100928)
Lsusb:
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Acer TravelMate 290
Package: linux (not installed)
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Regression: No
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38
Reproducible: Yes
RfKill:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
Tags: maverick kernel-net needs-upstream-testing
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
UserGroups:
dmi.bios.date: 05/21/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: ACER
dmi.bios.version: Version 1.30.00
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: ����������������
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: COMPAL
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnACER:bvrVersion1.30.00:bd05/21/2004:svnAcer:pnTravelMate290:pvr:cvnCOMPAL:ct8:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: TravelMate 290
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
Hi mjw99,
Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://
apport-collect -p linux 628433
Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https:/
Thanks in advance.
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