eeepc_laptop: wlan hotplug disabled -> UNCLAIMED Wireless Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:002c] (rev 01) : chipset requires compat-wireless ath9k driver that works on Asus Eee PC 1005PE in Ubuntu 9.10, but NOT in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

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 aptitude update; sudo aptitude install hwinfo grep; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | egrep 'ound|irmware|eth|ath|wl|ipw|b43|witch|ndiswrapper'; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; 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.

Thanks for fast response, here is the terminal output ....

Writing extended state information... Done
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Reading package lists... Done

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  hwinfo libhd16{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  linux-headers-2.6.32-21{u} linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic{u}
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 744kB of archives. After unpacking 83.2MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe libhd16 16.0-2 [698kB]
Get:2 http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe hwinfo 16.0-2 [46.1kB]
Fetched 744kB in 14s (52.0kB/s)
(Reading database ... 141674 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic ...
Removing linux-headers-2.6.32-21 ...
Selecting previously deselected package libhd16.
(Reading database ... 123268 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libhd16 (from .../libhd16_16.0-2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package hwinfo.
Unpacking hwinfo (from .../hwinfo_16.0-2_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libhd16 (16.0-2) ...

Setting up hwinfo (16.0-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done

  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Atheros Communications Inc.
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:fbff0000-fbffffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
       vendor: Atheros Communications
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: c0
       serial: e0:cb:4e:89:65:e0
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.0.1-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.101 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:29 memory:f7fc0000-f7ffffff ioport:ec00(size=128)
0: eeepc-wlan: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
2: eeepc-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

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 N10 Family DMI Bridge [8086:a010]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a011]
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a012]
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller [8086:27bc] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller [8086:27c1] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [1969:1062] (rev c0)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:002c] (rev 01)
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0b05:1788 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
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 002: ID 13d3:5111 IMC Networks
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
=========================================================
                                  system 1005PE
/0 bus 1005P
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/4 processor Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.6
/0/4/5 memory 24KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/4/1.1 processor Logical CPU
/0/4/1.2 processor Logical CPU
/0/15 memory 2GiB System Memory
/0/15/0 memory 2GiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz
/0/15/1 memory DIMM [empty]
/0/100 bridge N10 Family DMI Bridge
/0/100/2 display N10 Family Integrated Graphics Con
/0/100/2.1 display N10 Family Integrated Graphics Con
/0/100/1b multimedia N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition A
/0/100/1c bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port
/0/100/1c.1 bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port
/0/100/1c.1/0 network Atheros Communications Inc.
/0/100/1c.3 bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port
/0/100/1c.3/0 eth0 network Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ether
/0/100/1d bus N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controlle
/0/100/1d.1 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controll
/0/100/1d.2 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controll
/0/100/1d.3 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controll
/0/100/1d.7 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Control
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f bridge NM10 Family LPC Controller
/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controll
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 250GB Hitachi HTS54502
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 227GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 5870MiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 5870MiB Linux swap / Solaris parti
/0/100/1f.3 bus N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller
Linux ilhan-laptop 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 07:54:58 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] AMI BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00ff780] ff780
[ 0.188690] ACPI: EC: EC description table is found, configuring boot EC
[ 0.234579] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.280337] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 0.290656] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
[ 0.362131] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input0
[ 0.367044] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 0.375953] Switching to clocksource hpet
[ 0.410819] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: using broken periodic workaround
[ 0.511934] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.512836] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.513559] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.514304] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.515040] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.601301] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.0 loaded
[ 0.601311] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.616131] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 0.800831] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.473681] ACPI Warning for \_SB_.PCI0.IDE1.PRT0._GTF: Return type mismatch - found Integer, expected Buffer (20090903/nspredef-1006)
[ 9.196813] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 9.687479] eeepc_laptop: wlan hotplug disabled
[ 9.761479] eeepc_laptop: Get control methods supported: 0xe101703
[ 10.095858] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 UVC VGA WebCam (13d3:5111)
[ 10.958634] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 11.252177] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x37
[ 269.091550] atl1c 0000:01:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
[ 269.092290] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 279.348681] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:# replaced by b43 and ssb.
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf:blacklist twl4030_wdt
> hal.1: read hal dataprocess 1622: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion "(dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))" failed in file dbus-errors.c line 278.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
libhal.c 3483 : Error unsubscribing to signals, error=The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
24: PCI 200.0: 0280 Network controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  Unique ID: B35A.LYX+WMQK_O1
  Parent ID: qTvu.bQ30eTbcr+3
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:02:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Atheros Network controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications Inc."
  Device: pci 0x002c
  SubVendor: pci 0x1a3b
  SubDevice: pci 0x1112
  Revision: 0x01
  Memory Range: 0xfbff0000-0xfbffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 10 (no events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v0000168Cd0000002Csv00001A3Bsd00001112bc02sc80i00"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #13 (PCI bridge)

25: PCI 100.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  Unique ID: rBUF.Qk9ZRmN_Ab8
  Parent ID: Z7uZ.f4r+Yl3RyX5
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:01:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Attansic Ethernet controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x1969 "Attansic Technology Corp."
  Device: pci 0x1062
  SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
  SubDevice: pci 0x838a
  Revision: 0xc0
  Driver: "atl1c"
  Driver Modules: "atl1c"
  Device File: eth0
  Memory Range: 0xf7fc0000-0xf7ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0xec00-0xec7f (rw)
  IRQ: 29 (11068 events)
  HW Address: e0:cb:4e:89:65:e0
  Link detected: yes
  Module Alias: "pci:v00001969d00001062sv00001043sd0000838Abc02sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: atl1c is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe atl1c"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #14 (PCI bridge)
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
                                                                         [ OK ]

sorry i submitted the requested information as a comment. miss clicked...

I suggest following this procedure:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/557048/comments/15

If it does not help, I suggest reverting to Ubuntu 9.10 while they try to fix the bug in 10.04.....

Even by installing the Ubuntu 9.10 problem resist. when the installation finish there is no wireless card known by OS.
The following method i used for 10.4 and i couldnt fix the wireless but it successfully fixed the problem with my wireless card in Ubuntu 9.10

http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2010-02-13.tar.bz2
tar -xf compat-wireless-2010-02-13.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless-2010-02-13
./scripts/driver-select ath9k
make
sudo make unload
sudo make install

HI! Im new with Linux...

how to enable WLAN with 10.4 on EEE-PC 1000HE?!

@Drezic: please create a separate question using this link:

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