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Wireless broken from U/G to 9.10

Asked by TonyR

TP-LINK TL-WN610G not working following U/G to 9.10 which worked very well in Ubuntu 8.04.
The device manager instantly see the correct device as Atheros AR 5001 but it does not seem to even attempt connection. Here is some relevant information.

[sudo] password for anthony:
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 1
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm cap_list
       configuration: latency=0 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10
       resources: memory:18000000-1800ffff

anthony@presario:~$ sudo iwlist scanning
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

anthony@presario:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
anthony@presario:~$ cat etc/lsb-release
cat: etc/lsb-release: No such file or directory
anthony@presario:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] [1106:0601] (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] [1106:8601]
00:07.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] [1106:0686] (rev 22)
00:07.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 10)
00:07.4 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] [1106:3057] (rev 30)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller [1106:3058] (rev 20)
00:09.0 Communication controller [0780]: Conexant Systems, Inc. HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem [14f1:2013] (rev 01)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller [104c:ac50] (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade i1 [1023:8520] (rev 6a)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0013] (rev 01)
anthony@presario:~$
anthony@presario:~$ dmesg | grep ound
[ 0.000000] Phoenix BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.
[ 0.080270] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.106757] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
[ 1.298243] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.317097] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.323083] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 1.331692] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 2.861613] usb-storage: device found at 3
[ 16.961008] yenta_cardbus 0000:00:0a.0: CardBus bridge found [0e11:b103]
anthony@presario:~$ dmesg | grep b43
anthony@presario:~$ dmesg | grep iwl
anthony@presario:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

anthony@presario:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
                                                                         [ OK ]
anthony@presario:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

I removed network manager and installed WICD which reports no wireless network found even though I am right behind the wireless router and all security has been disabled. The wireless interface is set to wlan0. What else can I do?

How can Ubuntu detect the correct device and not connect when this worked perfectly in version 8.10??

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo iwlist scan

Thanks

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TonyR (rooneyo) said : 		#2

Hi

I tried to create a backup of the Ubuntu partition using G4L to a network share thinking it now supported this but it failed conducting the backup to a local drive instead until it failed at 82% - out of disk space which left me with a system that I could no longer log on to. Ubuntu does not have a safe mode with a reduced resolution GUI so you are dumpted into a terminal environment that Linux seems obsessed with. When will they realise that people require a GUI troubleshooting interface with GRAPHICAL intuitive tools to rectify configuration problems and DUMP the terminal, except for the Linux talaban

G4L has a very pounderious interface that I could not decypher when Ghosting should be so simple.

I reinstalled 9.10 alternative from a disk image losing all my data and settings which restored wireless. Great but now my CD ROM will not recognise Audio Disks although it will read data ones OK.

I will raise a new issue for this new problem.

It disheartens me to see Ubuntu struggle to run properly standard input and output devices following complete error free setup.

I think the platform has a long way to go to be considered stable unless you are prepared for endless trawling of forums and support sites.