cannot connect wireless with jaunty

[groovomata]

I did a fresh install of Jaunty on my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop. Previously, with 8.10 I was able to connect easily to my wireless network (and to other wireless networks as well). Now, the only time I can connect with my wireless network is immediately after rebooting, or coming out of suspend or hibernation. I am able to briefly connect, for a few minutes and then, every time, it will lose the connection and will not be able to reconnect. Wired connection works fine. I am using the Broadcom BCM4311 fwcutter restricted driver. Initially, a few days ago, no wireless networks would be displayed in the network manager applet (though there are many), now I can see a number wireless networks, including my own, I just cannot connect. I'm not sure what has changed between 8.10 and 9.04 in this respect, however there are a number of threads in the ubuntuforum on this topic.

Thanks,
Erik.

[Ben Crisford (bencrisford)]

Open terminal and type 'lspci' (sans quotes) and see if you can see your wireless adapter there.

It would be very useful if you could post this here, because you mentioned what driver you were using :), but not what hardware.

Cheers,
Ben

[Ben Crisford (bencrisford)]

Sorry, I should have explained my last comment a little better.

The aim of the lspci is to establish the name of what your card is called, not to see if it was there.

Sorry if I confused anyone,
Ben

[groovomata (groovomata-gmail)]

Apologies I was actually at work when I made the bug report. Here is an attachment of the output of lspci. Thanks for your attention!
Erik.

[groovomata (groovomata-gmail)]

Here is an attachment of the output of 'sudo lshw -C network':

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Here is an attachment of the output of 'lsmod':

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Here is an attachment of the output of 'dmesg | grep "wlan0"':

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Here is an attachment of the output of 'iwconfig':

[groovomata (groovomata-gmail)]

Here is an attachment of the output of 'ifconfig':

[Ben Crisford (bencrisford)]

I am going to confirm this.

Obviously I cannot reproduce this as we have different network cards.

But I think there is sufficient information to come to the conclusion that this is in fact a bug. If I am wrong I encourage anyone to correct me, and ultimately a bug controller will have to decide whether to triage this or not. But based on the information given, id say this is worthy of confirmation.

If anyone else has a broadcom card, it would be fantastic if you could comment.

Cheers,
Ben

[groovomata (groovomata-gmail)]

Thanks Ben. If there's any more information I can provide, please let me know.

[groovomata (groovomata-gmail)]

erik@silver-surfer:~$ uname -a
Linux silver-surfer 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

groovomata, have you tried installing the "Broadcom STA wireless driver" from System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers? I have a broadcom card and Broadcom's own drivers installed from there have been very good to me!

[groovomata (groovomata-gmail)]

Thanks Michael, for your comment. I did try the Broadcom STA wireless driver, but it doesn't seem to work. On my laptop the wireless indicator light will not go on and network-manager does not show me a list of wireless networks. With the Broadcom BCM4311 driver at least the wireless indicator light will go on and I can see a list wireless networks, even if I can't properly connect to any of them!

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

Oh okay, sorry to hear that groovomata. You did try a system restart
after installing them, correct?

[groovomata (groovomata-gmail)]

I did a reboot, however I'll try it again tonight and report back. I wonder why wireless indicator light doesn't come on with the Broadcom STA driver? What I'll do is remove the BCM4311 driver. Reboot. Install the STA driver. Reboot and attached the results of the various commands above for the Broadcom STA driver. Perhaps that will shed some light on the situation.
Thanks,
Erik.

[Ben Crisford (bencrisford)]

Hey again groovomata,

If you get a chance to try with a different wireless card, perhaps a USB one, obviously, it is almost certain that is your card, but its certainly worth checking if we can.

Cheers again,
ben

[groovomata (groovomata-gmail)]

I am currently typing this note using a wireless connection. After I was unable to get wireless to work with ubuntu 9.04, I got paranoid that my wireless adapter was no longer working and decided to see if it would work if I install Windows Vista on my computer. Lo and behold, it did not... but while digging around in vista, one dialogue box informed me that my card was not enabled, and indeed the little wireless light was not lit in vista. Once I enabled it, wireless worked fine in vista. So then I wiped out vista and re-installed Jaunty and voila! My wireless worked. I very much prefer ubuntu over Windows, but I do wish in all of the different outputs of various commands that I pored over, one of them had simply said that my wireless card was not enabled, afterall, the little wireless light was on the whole time in ubuntu. How was I to know?
Anyways, I'm happy to report that my wireless now works fine!

[groovomata (groovomata-gmail)]

I discovered that despite the fact the little wireless indicator light was on, my wireless card was, in fact, not enabled (please read last post). It is now enabled and seems to work fine.

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

Thanks for the update! No need to assign yourself though :)

[groovomata (groovomata-gmail)]

Thanks you... well I thought since it started with me, it should end with
me! ;)

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Michael Rooney <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for the update! No need to assign yourself though :)
>
> ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: groovomata (groovomata-gmail) => (unassigned)
>
> --
> cannot connect wireless with jaunty
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373791
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “network-manager” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> I did a fresh install of Jaunty on my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop.
> Previously, with 8.10 I was able to connect easily to my wireless network
> (and to other wireless networks as well). Now, the only time I can connect
> with my wireless network is immediately after rebooting, or coming out of
> suspend or hibernation. I am able to briefly connect, for a few minutes and
> then, every time, it will lose the connection and will not be able to
> reconnect. Wired connection works fine. I am using the Broadcom BCM4311
> fwcutter restricted driver. Initially, a few days ago, no wireless networks
> would be displayed in the network manager applet (though there are many),
> now I can see a number wireless networks, including my own, I just cannot
> connect. I'm not sure what has changed between 8.10 and 9.04 in this
> respect, however there are a number of threads in the ubuntuforum on this
> topic.
>
> Thanks,
> Erik.
>

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