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Wireless is disabled

Asked by Vic on 2010-05-14

I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 in my New Dell Studio laptop with i5 processor. i dont why it says Wireless is disabled under wireless network. I plugged in a wire and Internet is working fine when wired. There is same key "F2" for wireless+Bluetooth on/off. when i hit this key twice Bluetooth goes off/on but no changes in wireless status. its still disabled.
Can someone please help? It would be greatly appreciated.
-viiv

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2010-05-15
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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : #1

Hi,

Please first connect your network card to the wireless router using an ethernet cable (also known as a LAN cable).

In order to gather essential troubleshooting information about your wireless card, please follow this procedure:

Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->Terminal"

Step 2: Please copy-paste the following command from the https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu website in Firefox into the Linux Terminal. Do NOT copy-paste from the Email message into the Terminal, as that will only copy PART of the command. The command STARTS with the word sudo and ENDS with the word restart. So please copy-paste the ENTIRE command below from Firefox into a Terminal, press <enter>, then enter password when sudo asks for password, then press enter again.

Tip: If you have a wheel mouse or 3 button mouse you do not need to type commands into the Terminal. Highlight the command written on the page. Move your cursor anywhere in the Terminal and press the wheel or middle button. Automatic Copy and paste! No spelling mistakes! No Typos! No other errors!

sudo lshw -C network; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | grep ound; dmesg | grep eth; dmesg | grep ath; dmesg | grep b43; dmesg | grep wl; dmesg | grep witch; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Step 3: Please post results (copy/paste terminal output) on this thread. The troubleshooters here need to see the full Terminal output from running the above command.

Step 4: Please also specify the exact model and make of your PC (if known) on this thread

Regards,

Mark

Stephen Peter Lane (splane1) said : #2

I have exactly the same problem on my Dell Studio 17 laptop. I performed the commands that Mark suggested, and this is what I got as output:

sudo lshw -C network; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | grep ound; dmesg | grep eth; dmesg | grep ath; dmesg | grep b43; dmesg | grep wl; dmesg | grep witch; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: WiMAX/WiFi Link 6050 Series
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 35
       serial: 00:23:15:0f:a8:40
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
       resources: irq:36 memory:f0d00000-f0d01fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:20:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 03
       serial: 00:26:b9:c5:aa:75
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 1GB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.1.6 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:34 ioport:4000(size=256) memory:f1204000-f1204fff(prefetchable) memory:f1200000-f1203fff(prefetchable) memory:f1220000-f123ffff(prefetchable)
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto wlan0
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04 LTS"
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 06)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:3b46] (rev 06)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:3b48] (rev 06)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:3b4a] (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:3b4c] (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b09] (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b29] (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 06)
08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation WiMAX/WiFi Link 6050 Series [8086:0087] (rev 35)
0e:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors Device [1131:7231] (rev aa)
14:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: O2 Micro, Inc. Device [1217:10f7] (rev 01)
14:00.1 SD Host controller [0805]: O2 Micro, Inc. Device [1217:8120] (rev 01)
14:00.2 Mass storage controller [0180]: O2 Micro, Inc. Device [1217:8130] (rev 01)
20:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 02)
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 046d:c018 Logitech, Inc. Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 8086:0188 Intel Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0c45:6406 Microdia
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
=========================================================
                               system Studio 1749
/0 bus Motherboard
/0/1 memory 124KiB BIOS
/0/3 bus 029DYC
/0/5 processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz
/0/5/6 memory 64KiB L1 cache
/0/5/7 memory 256KiB L2 cache
/0/5/8 memory 3MiB L3 cache
/0/12 memory 6GiB System Memory
/0/12/0 memory 4GiB SODIMM Synchronous 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/12/1 memory 2GiB SODIMM Synchronous 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/100 bridge Core Processor DRAM Controller
/0/100/2 display Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/16 communication 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller
/0/100/1a bus 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
/0/100/1b multimedia 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio
/0/100/1c bridge 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1
/0/100/1c.1 bridge 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0 wlan0 network WiMAX/WiFi Link 6050 Series
/0/100/1c.2 bridge 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3
/0/100/1c.2/0 multimedia Philips Semiconductors
/0/100/1c.3 bridge 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4
/0/100/1c.3/0 bus O2 Micro, Inc.
/0/100/1c.3/0.1 generic O2 Micro, Inc.
/0/100/1c.3/0.2 storage O2 Micro, Inc.
/0/100/1c.4 bridge 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5
/0/100/1c.5 bridge 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6
/0/100/1c.5/0 eth0 network RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
/0/100/1d bus 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f bridge Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller
/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller
/0/100/1f.2/0 /dev/sda disk 500GB Hitachi HTS72505
/0/100/1f.2/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 39MiB Windows FAT volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 14GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 397GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/4 /dev/sda4 volume 53GiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/4/5 /dev/sda5 volume 51GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/4/6 /dev/sda6 volume 2301MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/100/1f.2/1 /dev/cdrom disk DVD+-RW GA31N
/0/100/1f.3 bus 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller
/0/100/1f.6 generic 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem
/0/101 bridge Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers
/0/102 bridge Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder
/0/103 bridge Core Processor QPI Link 0
/0/104 bridge Core Processor QPI Physical 0
/0/105 bridge Core Processor Reserved
/0/106 bridge Core Processor Reserved
/1 power DELL M9
/2 system
/3 power To Be Defined By O.E.M
Linux steve-laptop 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:28:05 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] No NUMA configuration found
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [ffff8800000f6760] f6760
[ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.939414] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 1.014368] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
[ 1.181270] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.211799] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.249718] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 1.256001] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 1.773784] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2.043412] hub 2-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 14.668090] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 14.873251] sdhci-pci 0000:14:00.1: SDHCI controller found [1217:8120] (rev 1)
[ 14.965467] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_2M (0c45:6406)
[ 15.224022] input: HDA Intel Mic at Ext Left Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input9
[ 15.224139] input: HDA Intel Line Out at Ext Left Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input10
[ 15.224245] input: HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Left Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input11
[ 1.297782] eth0: RTL8168d/8111d at 0xffffc90000c78000, 00:26:b9:c5:aa:75, XID 081000c0 IRQ 34
[ 15.904377] r8169: eth0: link down
[ 15.905263] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 3462.068330] r8169: eth0: link up
[ 3462.069342] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 3472.575524] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 1.249713] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.0 loaded
[ 1.249718] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 14.962428] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27k
[ 14.962431] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation
[ 14.962543] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 14.962582] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 14.973315] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 6050 Series 2x2 AGN REV=0x84
[ 14.995899] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels
[ 14.995998] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: irq 36 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 15.007039] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
[ 15.883887] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode
[ 15.899056] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
[ 15.899059] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-6050-3.ucode
[ 15.900307] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: iwlwifi-6050-3.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
[ 15.900310] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-6050-2.ucode
[ 15.901569] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: iwlwifi-6050-2.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
[ 15.901573] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-6050-1.ucode
[ 15.902876] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: iwlwifi-6050-1.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
[ 15.902880] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: Could not read microcode: -2
[ 16.123353] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode
[ 16.124876] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
[ 16.124922] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-6050-3.ucode
[ 16.126233] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: iwlwifi-6050-3.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
[ 16.126286] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-6050-2.ucode
[ 16.127350] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: iwlwifi-6050-2.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
[ 16.127402] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-6050-1.ucode
[ 16.128436] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: iwlwifi-6050-1.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
[ 16.128483] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: Could not read microcode: -2
[ 205.894905] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.
[ 2287.871570] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to enable radio.
[ 2287.959175] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode
[ 2287.961244] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
[ 2287.961251] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-6050-3.ucode
[ 2287.962883] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: iwlwifi-6050-3.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
[ 2287.962887] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-6050-2.ucode
[ 2287.964023] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: iwlwifi-6050-2.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
[ 2287.964027] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-6050-1.ucode
[ 2287.965221] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: iwlwifi-6050-1.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
[ 2287.965225] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: Could not read microcode: -2
[ 4498.873841] iwlagn 0000:08:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.
[ 0.991732] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 1.111486] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input0
[ 1.111586] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
[ 16.079539] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 200x56
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"steveandmargot"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=off
          Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:# replaced by b43 and ssb.
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf:blacklist twl4030_wdt
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface wlan0=wlan0.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Steve.

Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : #3

@Steve: please create a separate thread for your new question using this link:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

Vic (vick0101) said : #4

@Steve: All ubuntu wants you to do is to install the driver for your wireless network card.
Step1: you can locate which card you are using by typing "lspci -vvnn | grep 14e4" at Accessories>Terminal.
     It will show you something like this..
     The example:
   03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] (rev 01)
Step2: once you find identified your network card, type this into the terminal, "sudo aptitude update"
Step3: Now type "sudo aptitude install bcmwl-kernel-source"
Step4: Now goto System>administrator>hardware drivers, Select your wireless driver from there and activate it.
Step5: Restart your laptop,
Step6: select your network and you're done!

For more info, visit this link.. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

Regards,
Vivek

Vic (vick0101) said : #5

solved.

Reinhold (dzrox) said : #6

I tried Mark Rijckenberg's solution with no success.

I copied the terminal response and will paste it below. The computer is a Dell Latitude, D810 with an Intel Pentium M processor, 1 gig of memory.

I also verified the drivers for both of the WiFe devices that I use. When I was using 9.10 on this machine, it never asked for the devices.

Thank you for any help you can provide to me. I really don't want to go back to 9.10. 10.4 works perfectly. That is until I shut it down and starting it the next day.

Tahoe

tahoe@tahoe-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | grep ound; dmesg | grep eth; dmesg | grep ath; dmesg | grep b43; dmesg | grep wl; dmesg | grep witch; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

[sudo] password for tahoe:

  *-network

       description: Ethernet interface

       product: NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express

       vendor: Broadcom Corporation

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0

       logical name: eth0

       version: 01

       serial: 00:12:3f:de:94:66

       capacity: 1GB/s

       width: 64 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation

       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.102 firmware=5751-v3.29a latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair

       resources: irq:16 memory:dfcf0000-dfcfffff

  *-network

       description: 802.11g CardBus

       vendor: Broadcom

       physical id: 0

       version: 4.5

       slot: Socket 0

       resources: irq:19

  *-network

       description: Network controller

       product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller

       vendor: Broadcom Corporation

       physical id: 3

       bus info: pci@0000:03:03.0

       version: 02

       width: 32 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: bus_master

       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64

       resources: irq:17 memory:dfbfe000-dfbfffff

  *-network

       description: Network controller

       product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller

       vendor: Broadcom Corporation

       physical id: 1

       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0

       version: 03

       width: 32 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: bus_master

       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64

       resources: irq:19 memory:88000000-88001fff

  *-network:0 DISABLED

       description: Wireless interface

       physical id: 2

       logical name: wlan0

       serial: 00:14:a5:04:a8:0d

       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless

       configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

  *-network:1 DISABLED

       description: Wireless interface

       physical id: 3

       logical name: wlan1

       serial: 00:30:bd:f3:0c:4e

       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless

       configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

  *-network:2 DISABLED

       description: Wireless interface

       physical id: 4

       logical name: wlan2

       serial: 00:22:3f:8e:45:8a

       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless

       configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

wlan1 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

wlan2 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu

DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04

DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid

DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04 LTS"

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller [8086:2590] (rev 03)

00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:2591] (rev 03)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2660] (rev 03)

00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 [8086:2658] (rev 03)

00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 [8086:2659] (rev 03)

00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 [8086:265a] (rev 03)

00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 [8086:265b] (rev 03)

00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:265c] (rev 03)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev d3)

00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:266e] (rev 03)

00:1e.3 Modem [0703]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller [8086:266d] (rev 03)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:2641] (rev 03)

00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller [8086:2653] (rev 03)

00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:266a] (rev 03)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600] [1002:3150]

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 01)

03:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI6515 Cardbus Controller [104c:8036]

03:01.5 Communication controller [0780]: Texas Instruments PCI6515 SmartCard Controller [104c:8038]

03:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)

04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03)

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c03f Logitech, Inc. UltraX Optical Mouse

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

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 005: ID 0846:9001 NetGear, Inc. WN111 v2 802.11n

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

H/W path Device Class Description

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                               system Latitude D810

/0 bus 0D8006

/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS

/0/400 processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.

/0/400/700 memory 8KiB L1 cache

/0/400/701 memory 2MiB L2 cache

/0/1000 memory 2GiB System Memory

/0/1000/0 memory 1GiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 667 MHz

/0/1000/1 memory 1GiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 667 MHz

/0/100 bridge Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express

/0/100/1 bridge Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Expres

/0/100/1/0 display M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600]

/0/100/1c bridge 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family

/0/100/1c/0 eth0 network NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet

/0/100/1d bus 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family

/0/100/1d.1 bus 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family

/0/100/1d.2 bus 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family

/0/100/1d.3 bus 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family

/0/100/1d.7 bus 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family

/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge

/0/100/1e/1 bridge PCI6515 Cardbus Controller

/0/100/1e/1/0 network 802.11g CardBus

/0/100/1e/1.5 communication PCI6515 SmartCard Controller

/0/100/1e/3 network BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g

/0/100/1e.2 multimedia 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family

/0/100/1e.3 communication 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family

/0/100/1f bridge 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bri

/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller

/0/100/1f.2/0 /dev/sda disk 60GB HTS726060M9AT00

/0/100/1f.2/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 2383MiB Linux swap volume

/0/100/1f.2/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 9536MiB Extended partition

/0/100/1f.2/0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 9536MiB Linux filesystem partition

/0/100/1f.2/0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 39GiB EXT4 volume

/0/100/1f.2/1 /dev/cdrom disk CDRW/DVD GCC4244

/0/100/1f.3 bus 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family

/0/1 network BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Con

/1 power DELL D550557

/2 wlan0 network Wireless interface

/3 wlan1 network Wireless interface

/4 wlan2 network Wireless interface

Linux tahoe-laptop 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

[ 0.142804] ACPI: ACPI Dock Station Driver: 1 docks/bays found
[ 0.236006] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
[ 0.732335] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.732730] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.732996] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.733262] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.733502] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.748234] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.752325] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 1.071779] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.421983] usb-storage: device found at 2
[ 1.511367] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:03:03.0
[ 11.753744] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 12.324717] yenta_cardbus 0000:03:01.0: CardBus bridge found [1028:0186]
[ 12.400159] dell-wmi: No known WMI GUID found
[ 12.470511] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[ 13.206452] b43-phy1: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found (core revision 5)
[ 13.679816] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:04:00.0
[ 86.111709] usb-storage: device found at 4
[ 1.443595] eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95751) rev 4001] (PCI Express) MAC address 00:12:3f:de:94:66
[ 1.443601] eth0: attached PHY is 5750 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1])
[ 1.443604] eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
[ 1.443607] eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
[ 13.017711] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 0.748230] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.0 loaded
[ 0.748234] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 125.768488] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0
[ 125.768496] ath: EEPROM indicates default country code should be used
[ 125.768501] ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search
[ 125.768508] ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a
[ 125.768513] ath: Country alpha2 being used: US
[ 125.768517] ath: Regpair used: 0x3a
[ 1.421849] b43-pci-bridge 0000:03:03.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 12.470511] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[ 12.593903] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[ 12.593923] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[ 12.593940] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[ 13.176067] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
[ 13.200277] b43-pci-bridge 0000:04:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 13.200288] b43-pci-bridge 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 13.200300] b43-pci-bridge 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 13.206452] b43-phy1: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found (core revision 5)
[ 13.357861] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw
[ 13.387071] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
[ 13.404589] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
[ 13.588810] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
[ 13.679744] Registered led device: b43-phy1::tx
[ 13.679767] Registered led device: b43-phy1::rx
[ 13.679788] Registered led device: b43-phy1::radio
[ 13.700136] b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED
[ 13.676614] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 0.024871] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 0.180010] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 0.309803] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input0
[ 0.310465] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 0.315104] Switching to clocksource hpet
[ 1.584111] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x75

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any

          Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off

          Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off

          Power Management:off

wlan1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any

          Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm

          Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off

          Power Management:off

wlan2 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any

          Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm

          Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off

          Power Management:off

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:# replaced by b43 and ssb.
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf:blacklist twl4030_wdt

 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... [ OK ]

tahoe@tahoe-laptop:~$