Public bug reported:
Kubuntu version 8.10
Wireless is broken on my IBM T43 Thinkpad, not sure since when, as used mostly
with eth0 at office.....
i have booted to older kernel and using different iwconfig commands, was
able to bring up the wifi...
OK with :
Linux version 2.6.24-19-generic (bui...@terranova) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu
4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu
2.6.24-19.41-generic)
iwconfig:
sudo iwconfig eth1 essid myessid
sudo iwconfig eth1 ap any
sudo iwconfig eth1 key MYHEXKEY
my /etc/network/interfaces:
da...@akf5573:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
essid mySSID
key MYKEY
restricted modules on working kernel:
apt-cache policy linux-restricted-modules
linux-restricted-modules:
Installed: 2.6.27.11.14
Candidate: 2.6.27.11.14
Version table:
*** 2.6.27.11.14 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-proposed/restricted Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.6.27.9.13 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/restricted Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/restricted Packages
2.6.27.7.11 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
NOK with :
Linux version 2.6.27-11-generic (bui...@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu
4.3.2-1ubuntu11) ) #1 SMP Fri Dec 19 16:29:52 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu
2.6.27-11.22-generic)
same with 27-10 still installed too . . . .
restricted-modules:
dpkg -l | grep linux-rest | grep 27
ii linux-restricted-modules 2.6.27.11.14
Generic Linux restricted modules.
ii linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic 2.6.27-10.14
Non-free Linux kernel modules for version 2.6.27 on x86/
ii linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.15
Non-free Linux kernel modules for version 2.6.27 on x86/
ii linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.27-11.15
Non-free Linux 2.6.27 modules helper script
ii linux-restricted-modules-generic 2.6.27.11.14
Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels
removing ipw2200 and modprobing it shows this in dmesg logs:
modprobe ipw2200 :
[ 20.262055] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
[ 20.262061] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
[ 20.262415] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_wx_set_encode
[ 20.262418] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
[ 20.262505] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_wx_get_encode
[ 20.262507] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
[ 20.262858] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_txb_free
[ 20.262861] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
[ 20.263008] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
[ 20.263011] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
[ 20.263459] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
[ 20.263461] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
[ 20.263646] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_freq_to_channel
[ 20.263649] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
[ 20.264209] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_set_geo
[ 20.264211] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
[ 20.264665] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx
[ 20.264667] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
[ 20.264949] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_channel_to_index
[ 20.264951] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
[ 20.265610] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
[ 20.265612] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
[ 20.265700] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_geo
[ 20.265702] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
[ 20.265868] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol free_ieee80211
[ 20.265870] ipw2200: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
[ 20.266354] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_is_valid_channel
[ 20.266356] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
[ 20.266581] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol alloc_ieee80211
[ 20.266583] ipw2200: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
[ 1420.307064] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
[ 1420.307078] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
[ 1420.307926] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_wx_set_encode
[ 1420.307932] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
[ 1420.308171] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_wx_get_encode
[ 1420.308177] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
[ 1420.309017] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_txb_free
[ 1420.309023] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
[ 1420.309387] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
[ 1420.309393] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
[ 1420.313322] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
[ 1420.313333] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
[ 1420.313797] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_freq_to_channel
[ 1420.313803] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
[ 1420.315084] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_set_geo
[ 1420.315089] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
[ 1420.316183] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx
[ 1420.316189] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
[ 1420.316867] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_channel_to_index
[ 1420.316873] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
[ 1420.318432] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
[ 1420.318437] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
[ 1420.318662] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_geo
[ 1420.318667] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
[ 1420.319074] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol free_ieee80211
[ 1420.319080] ipw2200: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
[ 1420.320244] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_is_valid_channel
[ 1420.320250] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
[ 1420.320796] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol alloc_ieee80211
[ 1420.320801] ipw2200: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
here is my lspci -vvv attached also.
** Affects: linux-restricted-modules (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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ipw2200 wireless symbol errors
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312656
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