I see this, too.
System: Dell Inspiron 2650
Wifi card: Zonet 1701 (Ralink 2560)
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux playroom 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007
i686 GNU/Linux
Date: Sun 31 Mar 1007 17:50 (PDT)
I use a static IP address behind a Linksys WRT54G.
During boot the card's activation light comes on briefly, then goes out.
Toggling Admin->Network->Wireless does not ever restart it for me. The
card's activation light comes on briefly in this case, also. The only
things that work to restart it are commands "ifup" and
"/etc/init.d/networking":
: sudo ifup ra0
or
: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
The attached syslog file is the only one I could find that had any
detailed trace of the failed network activation (actually, activation
then de-activation)'. The last lines of that file, separated by a few
minutes from the boot trace, are from my cli invocation of
"/etc/init.d/networking restart".
"sudo lspci -v" shows, for the wifi card:
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus
Controller
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 00f3
Flags: bus master, stepping, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 10
Memory at e8001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 30000000-33fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 38000000-3bfff000
I/O window 0: 00003400-000034ff
I/O window 1: 00003800-000038ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
03:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
Subsystem: RaLink Unknown device 2560
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at 38000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
"/etc/network/interfaces" is
# 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
iface ra0 inet static
address 192.168.1.101
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
wireless-essid <my-real-essid-instead-of-this-ersatz-essid>
** Attachment added: "syslog with wifi card startup failure"
http://librarian.launchpad.net/7097068/syslog
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Ralink wifi card works but must be reset each boot
https://launchpad.net/bugs/95343
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