Public bug reported:
Testing on Compaq N410c and Dell Latitude D600 laptops - my wifi cards
Just Work on both in Edgy, but not in Feisty. The cards are a Belkin
F5D7010 (rt2500) and NetComm 54g (wg54t).
In both cases, the kernel detects the card okay and dhclient runs.
However, the card doesn't seem to pull an address and gives itself a
169.254 address. e.g., from ifconfig (Belkin card on Dell):
ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:50:66:9B:5F
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3262 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:130480 (127.4 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000
ra0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:50:66:9B:5F
inet addr:169.254.6.43 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-6-generic #2 SMP Wed Jan 31 20:53:39 UTC 2007 i686
GNU/Linux
This also happened with 2.6.20-5.
Here's the console log from plugging the Belkin card into the Dell:
Feb 1 18:20:39 paris NetworkManager: <debug info>^I[1170354039.830151]
nm_hal_device_added (): New device added (hal udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1814_201').
Feb 1 18:20:39 paris NetworkManager: <debug info>^I[1170354039.842142]
nm_hal_device_added (): New device added (hal udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_11_50_66_9b_5f').
Feb 1 18:20:39 paris kernel: [ 1363.508000] pccard: CardBus card inserted into
slot 0
Feb 1 18:20:39 paris kernel: [ 1363.508000] PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0
(0000 -> 0002)
Feb 1 18:20:39 paris kernel: [ 1363.508000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt
0000:03:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Feb 1 18:20:39 paris kernel: [ 1363.508000] rt2500 1.1.0 BETA4 2006/06/18
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
Feb 1 18:20:39 paris kernel: [ 1363.508000] PCI: Setting latency timer of
device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
Feb 1 18:20:39 paris kernel: [ 1363.664000] rt2500 EEPROM: 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Channel
Feb 1 18:20:39 paris kernel: [ 1363.664000] rt2500 EEPROM: 7 7 7 7 7 7
7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 dBm Maximum
Feb 1 18:20:39 paris NetworkManager: <information>^Ira0: Device is
fully-supported using driver 'rt2500'.
Feb 1 18:20:39 paris NetworkManager: <information>^Inm_device_init(): waiting
for device's worker thread to start
Feb 1 18:20:39 paris NetworkManager: <information>^Inm_device_init(): device's
worker thread started, continuing.
Feb 1 18:20:39 paris NetworkManager: <information>^INow managing wireless
(802.11) device 'ra0'.
Feb 1 18:20:39 paris NetworkManager: <information>^IDeactivating device ra0.
Feb 1 18:20:56 paris dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
interval 5
Feb 1 18:21:01 paris dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
interval 11
Feb 1 18:21:12 paris dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
interval 13
Feb 1 18:21:25 paris dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
interval 2
Feb 1 18:21:27 paris dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Feb 1 18:21:27 paris dhclient: No working leases in persistent database -
sleeping.
Feb 1 18:21:27 paris avahi-autoipd(ra0)[5600]: Found user 'avahi-autoipd' (UID
103) and group 'avahi-autoipd' (GID 107).
Feb 1 18:21:27 paris avahi-autoipd(ra0)[5600]: Successfully called chroot().
Feb 1 18:21:27 paris avahi-autoipd(ra0)[5600]: Successfully dropped root
privileges.
Feb 1 18:21:27 paris avahi-autoipd(ra0)[5600]: fopen() failed: Permission
denied
Feb 1 18:21:27 paris avahi-autoipd(ra0)[5600]: Starting with address
169.254.6.43
Feb 1 18:21:33 paris avahi-autoipd(ra0)[5600]: Callout BIND, address
169.254.6.43 on interface ra0
Feb 1 18:21:33 paris avahi-daemon[4615]: New relevant interface ra0.IPv4 for
mDNS.
Feb 1 18:21:33 paris avahi-daemon[4615]: Joining mDNS multicast group on
interface ra0.IPv4 with address 169.254.6.43.
Feb 1 18:21:33 paris avahi-daemon[4615]: Registering new address record for
169.254.6.43 on ra0.
Feb 1 18:21:36 paris sudo: fun : TTY=pts/2 ; PWD=/home/fun ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/usr/sbin/wifi-radar
Feb 1 18:21:37 paris dhclient: isc-dhclient-V3.0.4
Feb 1 18:21:37 paris avahi-autoipd(ra0)[5600]: Successfully claimed IP address
169.254.6.43
Feb 1 18:21:37 paris avahi-autoipd(ra0)[5600]: fopen() failed: Permission
denied
Feb 1 18:26:19 paris dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
interval 8
Feb 1 18:26:27 paris dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
interval 12
Feb 1 18:26:39 paris dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
interval 11
Feb 1 18:26:50 paris dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Feb 1 18:26:50 paris dhclient: No working leases in persistent database -
sleeping.
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
** Description changed:
Testing on Compaq N410c and Dell Latitude D600 laptops - my wifi cards
Just Work on both in Edgy, but not in Feisty. The cards are a Belkin
F5D7010 (rt2500) and NetComm 54g (wg54t).
In both cases, the kernel detects the card okay and dhclient runs.
However, the card doesn't seem to pull an address and gives itself a
169.254 address. e.g., from ifconfig:
ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:50:66:9B:5F
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3262 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:130480 (127.4 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000
ra0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:50:66:9B:5F
inet addr:169.254.6.43 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000
+
+ Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-6-generic #2 SMP Wed Jan 31 20:53:39 UTC 2007 i686
+ GNU/Linux
+
+ This also happened with 2.6.20-5.
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Feisty regression: wifi not working (rt2500, wg54t)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/82711
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