Public bug reported:
Clean OS install on a Dell Latitude D800 using a nVidia GeForce4 4200 Go
AGP8
Here is an lspci showing it sees the wireless card:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev
03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev
03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge
(rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev
01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go
AGP 8x] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit
Ethernet (rev 01)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510 PC card Cardbus Controller
(rev 01)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510,7610 PC card Cardbus
Controller (rev 01)
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 OHCI-Lynx
Controller
02:01.3 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 PCI Firmware
Loading Function
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g (rev 02)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
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Could it be that the problem is that the wireless card is assigned to
eth1 versus wlan0??
Here is the output of iwconfig:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"C" Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: Invalid
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
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** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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(nVidia) Finds correct wireless card but loads wrong driver
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/103389
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