[aklug] Re: Acer Aspire One D250 Wireless problems

Tim,

On a lark, I found this:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/90993/how-to-let-networkmanager-manage-wlan-interface-after-upgrade

It wasn't clear fro your descriptions if you had tried looking at a
permissions problem, but just thought I would throw this out there.

Mike B.
Quoting Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>:

> I've got a "rescue netbook" here bequeathed by one of my 'kids' for
> my wife's use when she travels.
>
> When my daughter had it she used windows 7 and told me that the
> wireless was entirely reliable.
>
> I put lubunt 41.04 on it and had problems with the wireless
> connection being unreliable - one time I might have a wireless
> connection and see wlan0 in ifconfig and the next it would be gone,
> wlan0 would be gone from ifconfig.
>
> In such a case I would plug in ethernet, get a connection and then
> when I rebooted the netbook, wlan0 would be visible and so would
> wireless connections.
>
> I then reinstalled with xubuntu 12.04. As with lubuntu, xubuntu
> found wireless without any problem and connect successfully. I
> immediately ran the script available here :
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57264241/wireless_script
> and stored the output.
> You can see that output at
> http://akwebsoft.com/clients/transfer/wireless-info_initial_install.txt
>
> Later, I found the same problem as in lubuntu, wireless connections
> were not visible in Network Manager wlan0 was absent from ifconfig.
>
> I then ran wireless_script again and saved the output at
> http://akwebsoft.com/clients/transfer/wireless-info_after_reboot.txt
>
> I have also syslog excerpts from that session and those excerpts
> follow
> [code]
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp NetworkManager[928]: <info> found WiFi radio
> killswitch rfkill2 (at
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill2)
> (driver (unknown))
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp NetworkManager[928]: <info> found WiFi radio
> killswitch rfkill0 (at
> /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/rfkill/rfkill0) (driver acer-wmi)
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp NetworkManager[928]: <info> WiFi enabled by
> radio killswitch; enabled by state file
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp NetworkManager[928]: <info> WWAN enabled by
> radio killswitch; enabled by state file
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp NetworkManager[928]: <info> WiMAX enabled by
> radio killswitch; enabled by state file
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp NetworkManager[928]: <info> Networking is
> enabled by state file
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp NetworkManager[928]: <info> (wlan0): using
> nl80211 for WiFi device control
> ....
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp NetworkManager[928]: <info> found WiFi radio
> killswitch rfkill2 (at
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill2)
> (driver (unknown))
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp NetworkManager[928]: <info> found WiFi radio
> killswitch rfkill0 (at
> /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/rfkill/rfkill0) (driver acer-wmi)
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp NetworkManager[928]: <info> WiFi enabled by
> radio killswitch; enabled by state file
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp NetworkManager[928]: <info> WWAN enabled by
> radio killswitch; enabled by state file
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp NetworkManager[928]: <info> WiMAX enabled by
> radio killswitch; enabled by state file
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp NetworkManager[928]: <info> Networking is
> enabled by state file
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp NetworkManager[928]: <info> (wlan0): using
> nl80211 for WiFi device control
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp kernel: [ 19.778319] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP):
> wlan0: link is not ready
> Nov 23 14:52:34 asp kernel: [ 19.779941] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP):
> wlan0: link is not ready
> ...
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp NetworkManager[881]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown:
> devices added (path:
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0/net/wlan0, iface:
> wlan0)
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp NetworkManager[881]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown:
> device added (path:
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0/net/wlan0, iface:
> wlan0): no ifupdown configuration found.
> ...
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp NetworkManager[881]: <info> (wlan0): using
> nl80211 for WiFi device control
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp NetworkManager[881]: <warn> (wlan0): driver
> supports Access Point (AP) mode
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp NetworkManager[881]: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11
> WiFi device (driver: 'ath5k' ifindex: 3)
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp NetworkManager[881]: <info> (wlan0): exported as
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp NetworkManager[881]: <info> (wlan0): now managed
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp NetworkManager[881]: <info> (wlan0): device
> state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2]
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp NetworkManager[881]: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device.
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp acpid: 35 rules loaded
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp acpid: waiting for events: event logging is off
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp NetworkManager[881]: <info> (wlan0): preparing device.
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp NetworkManager[881]: <info> (wlan0):
> deactivating device (reason 'managed') [2]
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp kernel: [ 21.449849] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP):
> wlan0: link is not ready
> Nov 23 15:09:08 asp kernel: [ 21.451648] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP):
> wlan0: link is not ready
> [/code]
> I haven't had any luck from posting to ubuntu forums and
> askubuntu.com is not accepting my question :(
>
> I did find the following reference to the AR542x Wireless Network
> Adapter at the following site :
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2160177
> And preformed the remedy suggested at the reply which you can find
> by doings a search on "try to deactivate".
>
> I've done a couple of reboots and at first, I was getting wireless
> and it is gone again. This is very frustrating as it will drive my
> wife nuts!
>
> I know that there are folks on this list who can analyze the data
> and probably suggest the solution and I hope that one of your will
> have the time.
>
> thanks
> tim
> --
> Tim
> tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
> http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com
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Received on Tue Nov 25 16:39:09 2014