WiFi does not function on Acer 1830T with 11.04
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Acer 1830T-68U118 - Wireless functions fine with Ubuntu 10.10 / Win7 dual-boot but fails with Ubuntu 11.04
WORKAROUND:
cat /etc/modprobe.
blacklist acer_wmi
sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; uname -a; rfkill list
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c0
serial: 20:6a:8a:16:ad:49
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:43 memory:
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM43225 802.11b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 5c:ac:4c:8a:03:d1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:17 memory:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
Linux kncx 2.6.38-9-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 28 15:23:06 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
2: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
3: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
affects: | gnome-nettool (Ubuntu) → ubuntu |
tags: | added: natty needs-reassignment regression-release |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
tags: |
added: needs-upstream-testing removed: needs-reassignment |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: amd64 |
Try to blacklist module 'acer_wmi' as described in : /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ network- manager/ +bug/689529/ comments/ 20
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