Can't Start Wireless in Ubuntu 11.04
I have a problem similar to that raised in question # 154695. I was asked to post it as a new question.
Running Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04 in dual boot configuration. An initial attempt to do an in-line upgrade from v 10 to v 11 hung at the final stage, so I ran a clean install of the new version. There seems to be a recovery version of the failed install attempt on my computer. I don't know how to get rid of that, but the new install of v 11.04 seems to run OK and wired network runs fine with new version. I did install and activate the proprietary driver for my wireless card after I couldn't connect to wireless initially, but that did not resolve the problem. I still cannot enable my wireless adapter in v 11.04.
My wireless worked fine with the previous Ubuntu version. My Wireless is controlled by a hotkey which is enabled in system setup and in Windows, but comes up disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 and cannot be turned on. I ran the diagnostic suggested in the referenced previous post. Here are the results:
alan@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install hwinfo grep; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/
[sudo] password for alan:
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*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:16 memory:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:19:b9:60:2d:f3
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:17 memory:
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:1a:92:7f:05:58
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
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
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
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00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:27a1] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300] [1002:7149]
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832]
03:01.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/
03:01.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 0a)
03:01.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 05)
0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
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 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
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/0 bus 0XD720
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/400 processor Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2250
/0/400/700 memory 32KiB L1 cache
/0/400/701 memory 2MiB L2 cache
/0/400/1.1 processor Logical CPU
/0/400/1.2 processor Logical CPU
/0/1000 memory 2GiB System Memory
/0/1000/0 memory 1GiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 533 MHz (1.
/0/1000/1 memory 1GiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 533 MHz (1.
/0/100 bridge Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 9
/0/100/1 bridge Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 9
/0/100/1/0 display M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300]
/0/100/1b multimedia N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audi
/0/100/1c bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c/0 network BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
/0/100/1c.3 bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4
/0/100/1d bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller
/0/100/1d.1 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller
/0/100/1d.2 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller
/0/100/1d.3 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller
/0/100/1d.7 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1e/0 eth0 network BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
/0/100/1e/1 bus R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
/0/100/1e/1.1 generic R5C822 SD/SDIO/
/0/100/1e/1.2 generic R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter
/0/100/1e/1.3 generic xD-Picture Card Controller
/0/100/1f bridge 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridg
/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE C
/0/100/1f.2/0 /dev/sda disk 120GB WDC WD1200BEVS-7
/0/100/1f.2/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 54MiB Windows FAT volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 10GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 99GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/4 /dev/sda4 volume 2GiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/4/5 /dev/sda5 volume 2047MiB
/0/100/1f.2/1 /dev/cdrom disk DVD+-RW DW-Q58A
/0/100/1f.3 bus N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller
/1 power DELLUD2655C
/2 wlan0 network Wireless interface
Linux ubuntu 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[ 0.248246] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.248254] HEST: Table not found.
[ 0.283895] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.283911] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.284017] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.292097] Switching to clocksource hpet
[ 0.295792] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0
[ 0.295859] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #1
[ 0.322295] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
[ 0.380162] input: Lid Switch as /devices/
[ 0.424032] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 0.498105] ERST: Table is not found!
[ 0.856550] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 0.923608] i2c-core: driver [adp5520] using legacy suspend method
[ 0.923611] i2c-core: driver [adp5520] using legacy resume method
[ 0.926014] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: using broken periodic workaround
[ 0.944186] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.944667] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.945080] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.948240] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.948639] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.952419] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.2.0 loaded
[ 0.952423] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.955886] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 1.377952] b43-pci-bridge 0000:0b:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 1.377966] b43-pci-bridge 0000:0b:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 1.396080] ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x11, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.396097] ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x0A, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.396111] ssb: Core 2 found: USB 1.1 Host (cc 0x817, rev 0x03, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.396122] ssb: Core 3 found: PCI-E (cc 0x820, rev 0x01, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.396736] sdhci-pci 0000:03:01.1: SDHCI controller found [1180:0822] (rev 19)
[ 1.397811] mmc0: no vmmc regulator found
[ 1.444137] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:0b:00.0
[ 1.488138] ssb: Core 0 found: Fast Ethernet (cc 0x806, rev 0x07, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.488155] ssb: Core 1 found: V90 (cc 0x807, rev 0x03, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.488168] ssb: Core 2 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x0A, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.532213] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:03:00.0
[ 1.553168] b44 ssb1:0: eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:19:b9:60:2d:f3
[ 20.423625] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 21.002891] leds_ss4200: no LED devices found
[ 21.183044] [Firmware Bug]: Duplicate ACPI video bus devices for the same VGA controller, please try module parameter "video.
[ 21.485177] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found (core revision 10)
[ 21.779088] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[ 21.779199] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[ 21.779295] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[ 21.779352] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNL, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
[ 21.920706] input: HDA Intel Mic at Ext Right Jack as /devices/
[ 21.920874] input: HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Right Jack as /devices/
[ 22.609632] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x50
[ 22.959309] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
[ 22.959315] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/
[ 22.959318] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://
[ 22.976826] ADDRCONF(
[ 104.804251] b44 ssb1:0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 104.804262] b44 ssb1:0: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
[ 104.804788] ADDRCONF(
[ 115.440067] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
# which ath5k cannot recover. To prevent this condition, stop
blacklist ath_pci
blacklist eth1394
# replaced by p54pci
blacklist prism54
# replaced by b43 and ssb.
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist uart6850
blacklist twl4030_wdt
> hal.1: read hal dataprocess 2019: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion "(dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))" failed in file dbus-errors.c line 280.
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
23: PCI b00.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: y9sn.CvS0RaMGsb1
Parent ID: z8Q3.2EHfjazND95
SysFS ID: /devices/
SysFS BusID: 0000:0b:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card"
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
Device: pci 0x4311 "BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN"
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x0007 "Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card"
Revision: 0x01
Driver: "b43-pci-bridge"
Driver Modules: "ssb"
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xefcfc000-
IRQ: 16 (no events)
HW Address: 00:1a:92:7f:05:58
Link detected: no
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472 2.484
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: ssb is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ssb"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #11 (PCI bridge)
24: PCI 300.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: rBUF.BCnMZHQFpUF
Parent ID: 6NW+.Wj0NIVYGM5E
SysFS ID: /devices/
SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Dell Inspiron 6400"
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
Device: pci 0x170c "BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX"
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x01af "Inspiron 6400"
Revision: 0x02
Driver: "b44"
Driver Modules: "ssb", "b44"
Device File: eth0
Memory Range: 0xef9fe000-
IRQ: 17 (6235 events)
HW Address: 00:19:b9:60:2d:f3
Link detected: yes
Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: b44 is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe b44"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #18 (PCI bridge)
[main]
NetworkingEnabl
WirelessEnabled
WWANEnabled=true
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 13213 1
parport_pc 32111 0
ppdev 12849 0
joydev 17322 0
snd_hda_codec_idt 60537 1
snd_hda_intel 24140 2
snd_hda_codec 90901 2 snd_hda_
snd_hwdep 13274 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 80244 2 snd_hda_
arc4 12473 2
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_rawmidi 25269 1 snd_seq_midi
radeon 896428 3
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 51291 2 snd_seq_
b43 296610 0
snd_timer 28659 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
mac80211 257001 1 b43
snd_seq_device 14110 3 snd_seq_
ttm 65184 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 40745 1 radeon
r852 17878 0
sm_common 16737 1 r852
nand 49822 2 r852,sm_common
dell_wmi 12601 0
drm 180037 5 radeon,
nand_ids 8547 1 nand
nand_ecc 13070 1 nand
snd 55295 13 snd_hda_
cfg80211 156212 2 b43,mac80211
sparse_keymap 13666 1 dell_wmi
dell_laptop 13515 0
mtd 26720 2 sm_common,nand
psmouse 73312 0
dcdbas 14054 1 dell_laptop
soundcore 12600 1 snd
i2c_algo_bit 13184 1 radeon
snd_page_alloc 14073 2 snd_hda_
serio_raw 12990 0
video 18951 0
lp 13349 0
parport 36746 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
b44 35301 0
firewire_ohci 31504 0
sdhci_pci 13623 0
firewire_core 56138 1 firewire_ohci
sdhci 22720 1 sdhci_pci
crc_itu_t 12627 1 firewire_core
ssb 45942 2 b43,b44
alan@ubuntu:~$
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