Public bug reported:
I booted from the 8.04 live CD and my wireless card, a Netgear wg511T could not
be configured using the GUI
tool (system->administration->network), although lshw and iwlist showed that
the hardware and driver
were working. This card works as expected with ubuntu 6.06.
With some experimentation based on the "WifiDocs WIreless TroubleShooting
Guide", I
found that I could in fact configure a wireless connection by running the
command
sudo iwconfig ath0 essid XXXXX key XXX
followed by
dhclient ath0
at that point, the wireless connection came up.
The wireless guide, however, recommended using the 'commit' flag for iwconfig,
and if I used that flag,
iwconfig would fail. My guess is that the Network GUI may be doing the
equivalent of running iwconfig
with the commit flag. If so, retrying without this flag may help.
The Netgear wg511t card may be using a restricted driver. Given that I can
make the card work using
command line programs, the problem does not seem to be with the driver (other
than something not
supporting the commit operation).
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Netgear wg511T does not work using ubuntu 8.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267617
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