problem with wireless access from ubuntu 9.10

Hi Ia m facing problem with wireless network access from ubuntu 9.10 on my Fujitsu Lifebook S Series laptop. The ssytem simlply does not detect any of the available access point. The following are the output of the following cmd (from ubuntu wireless troubleshooting procedure). Hope you can help. TQ

zahereel@zahereel-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get 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 'acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|ndiswrapper|NPE|ound|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|usb|witch|wl'; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; cat /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state; sudo lsmod
[sudo] password for zahereel:
Get:1 http://downloadue.info karmic Release.gpg
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release.gpg
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security Release.gpg
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://downloadue.info karmic/all Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Packages
Ign http://downloadue.info karmic Release
Ign http://downloadue.info karmic/all Packages
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Sources
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates Release.gpg
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Sources
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://downloadue.info karmic/all Packages
Hit http://downloadue.info karmic/all Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Packages
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://my.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Sources
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
hwinfo is already the newest version.
grep is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  klinkstatus-kde3 docbook-defguide libjline-java kfilereplace-kde3 rhino
  quanta-data
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 452 not upgraded.
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Atheros Communications Inc.
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:10:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:f2000000-f200ffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:18:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 01
       serial: 8c:73:6e:05:df:48
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 1GB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.99 duplex=full firmware=sb ip=10.172.2.59 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:33 memory:f2100000-f210ffff
0: hci0: 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=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Arrandale DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 12)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Arrandale PCI Express x16 Root Port [8086:0045] (rev 12)
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 6 [8086:3b4c] (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 1 [8086:3b42] (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)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:0a75] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:0be3] (rev a1)
10:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:002e] (rev 01)
18:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1692] (rev 01)
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2d13] (rev 02)
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0138 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04f2:b186 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 08ff:2550 AuthenTec, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 1690:0741 Askey Computer Corp. [hex]
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
=========================================================
                               system SH560
/0 bus FJNB20B
/0/0 memory 144KiB BIOS
/0/4 processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 3
/0/4/8 memory 32KiB L1 cache
/0/4/9 memory 256KiB L2 cache
/0/4/a memory 3MiB L3 cache
/0/4/4.1 processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.2 processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.3 processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.4 processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.5 processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.6 processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.7 processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.8 processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.9 processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.a processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.b processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.c processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.d processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.e processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.f processor Logical CPU
/0/4/4.10 processor Logical CPU
/0/11 memory 4GiB System Memory
/0/11/0 memory 2GiB SODIMM Synchronous 533 MHz (1
/0/11/1 memory 2GiB SODIMM Synchronous 533 MHz (1
/0/100 bridge Arrandale DRAM Controller
/0/100/1 bridge Arrandale PCI Express x16 Root Por
/0/100/1/0 display nVidia Corporation
/0/100/1/0.1 multimedia nVidia Corporation
/0/100/16 communication 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI
/0/100/1a bus 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2
/0/100/1b multimedia 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High
/0/100/1c bridge 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI E
/0/100/1c.1 bridge 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI E
/0/100/1c.1/0 network Atheros Communications Inc.
/0/100/1c.2 bridge 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI E
/0/100/1c.2/0 eth0 network NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet
/0/100/1d bus 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f bridge Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interf
/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 por
/0/100/1f.2/0 /dev/sda disk 320GB Hitachi HTS54503
/0/100/1f.2/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 16GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 200MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 70GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/4 /dev/sda4 volume 211GiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/4/5 /dev/sda5 volume 69GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/4/6 /dev/sda6 volume 5898MiB Linux swap / Solaris parti
/0/100/1f.2/0/4/7 /dev/sda7 volume 67GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/4/8 /dev/sda8 volume 2984MiB Linux swap / Solaris parti
/0/100/1f.2/1 /dev/cdrom disk DVD RW AD-7930H
/0/100/1f.3 bus 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus
/0/101 bridge QuickPath Architecture Generic Non
/0/102 bridge QuickPath Architecture System Addr
/0/103 bridge QPI Link 0
/0/104 bridge QPI Physical 0
/0/105 bridge Intel Corporation
/0/106 bridge Intel Corporation
/0/1 scsi6 storage
/0/1/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk SCSI Disk
/1 power CP293550-01
Linux zahereel-laptop 2.6.31-15-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 10 14:54:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] Phoenix BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.
[ 0.492334] ACPI: ACPI Dock Station Driver: 1 docks/bays found
[ 0.501989] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.502000] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.502020] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.522874] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
[ 0.524954] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
[ 0.525511] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 2
[ 0.525574] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 3
[ 0.536808] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
[ 0.846884] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input1
[ 0.846943] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 0.863619] ACPI: EC: non-query interrupt received, switching to interrupt mode
[ 1.212733] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.258769] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1.258793] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.278752] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1.278772] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.283592] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.0 loaded
[ 1.283595] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 1.286691] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 1.570648] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[ 1.703039] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1.703277] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.814532] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[ 1.947061] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1.947298] hub 2-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2.018736] usb 1-1.6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[ 2.123132] usb 1-1.6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 2.218663] usb 2-1.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[ 2.312595] usb 2-1.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 2.382577] usb 2-1.3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[ 2.513708] usb 2-1.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 2.586520] usb 2-1.4: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[ 2.769602] usb 2-1.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 3.236424] eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM57780) rev 57780001] (PCI Express) MAC address 8c:73:6e:05:df:48
[ 3.236429] eth0: attached PHY driver [Broadcom BCM57780] (mii_bus:phy_addr=1800:01)
[ 3.236432] eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
[ 3.236435] eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
[ 3.243009] usb-storage: device found at 3
[ 3.243011] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 3.243034] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 8.237639] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 22.150314] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 22.217761] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device FJ Camera (04f2:b186)
[ 22.224339] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
[ 22.785525] input: FJ Camera as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0/input/input9
[ 22.785573] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 23.702253] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 24.231008] tg3: eth0: Link is down.
[ 324.166491] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[ 324.166498] tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
[ 324.166889] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 334.319864] 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
24: PCI 1000.0: 0280 Network controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_2e
  Unique ID: h0vA.IIfwVFj0oz5
  Parent ID: qTvu.FaF8B+KlM_8
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:10:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:10:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Atheros Network controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications Inc."
  Device: pci 0x002e
  SubVendor: pci 0x10cf "Fujitsu Limited."
  SubDevice: pci 0x158f
  Revision: 0x01
  Memory Range: 0xf2000000-0xf200ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 10 (no events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v0000168Cd0000002Esv000010CFsd0000158Fbc02sc80i00"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #15 (PCI bridge)

25: PCI 1800.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_1692
  Unique ID: rBUF.cP0qsee3n03
  Parent ID: hoOk.DlMeDs5LJD8
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:18:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:18:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Broadcom Ethernet controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
  Device: pci 0x1692
  SubVendor: pci 0x10cf "Fujitsu Limited."
  SubDevice: pci 0x1533
  Revision: 0x01
  Driver: "tg3"
  Driver Modules: "tg3"
  Device File: eth0
  Memory Range: 0xf2100000-0xf210ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 33 (15804 events)
  HW Address: 8c:73:6e:05:df:48
  Link detected: yes
  Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00001692sv000010CFsd00001533bc02sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: tg3 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe tg3"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #16 (PCI bridge)
cat: /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state: No such file or directory
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 8356 1
bridge 47952 0
stp 2272 1 bridge
bnep 12060 2
kvm 162688 0
joydev 10272 0
dm_crypt 12928 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 203328 1
snd_hda_intel 26920 2
snd_hda_codec 75708 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 7200 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 37920 0
snd_mixer_oss 16028 1 snd_pcm_oss
iptable_filter 3100 0
snd_pcm 75296 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
ip_tables 11692 1 iptable_filter
snd_seq_dummy 2656 0
x_tables 16544 1 ip_tables
snd_seq_oss 28576 0
snd_seq_midi 6432 0
snd_rawmidi 22208 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6940 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
btusb 11856 2
snd_seq 50224 7 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
uvcvideo 59080 0
videodev 36736 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 14496 2 uvcvideo,videodev
ppdev 6688 0
snd_timer 22276 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 6920 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
psmouse 56500 0
snd 59204 17 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
serio_raw 5280 0
soundcore 7264 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9156 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
parport_pc 31940 1
fujitsu_laptop 11940 0
lp 8964 0
parport 35340 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
dm_raid45 84228 0
xor 15620 1 dm_raid45
usb_storage 52576 0
video 19380 0
output 2780 1 video
tg3 109600 0
intel_agp 27484 0
agpgart 34988 1 intel_agp
ramzswap 8880 1
xvmalloc 5180 1 ramzswap
lzo_decompress 2620 1 ramzswap
lzo_compress 2300 1 ramzswap
zahereel@zahereel-laptop:~$