[Bug 78074] Wireless fails to properly load on boot

[dennis1200]

Public bug reported:

I have 32bit Dapper, a Broadcom 4318 wireless card built in with
ndiswrapper, and a heck of a time getting wireless to work. This isn't
everywhere, but at my home and school it happens.

My /etc/network/interfaces file seems to be configured correctly; if I
enter /etc/init.d/networking restart, it will connect to my network, a
40-bit WEP encrypted wireless network, and quickly obtain an IP address.
Not on boot however. In all the locations I've been, the card connects
to an unsecured network, or, if there isn't one around, hangs until it
times out (not fun). I've tried reordering the boot sequence so that
networking is started later on, adding pre-up sleep commands to
interfaces, and cutting it out of boot altogether. My current solution
is to have it load on boot (there's an unsecured network around, so it
connects quickly) and then I put in a networking restart into rc.local,
which does the trick.

I have stumbled around with the 4318 (as many before me, and many to
come), and finally figured out the need for Open mode to get it to
connect correctly. Here is my interfaces file:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

#iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless-essid XXXXXX
wireless-key open XXXXXXX


Since it works from within GNOME to restart networking, I feel that interfaces is written correctly. There's an Ubuntuforums thread describing my efforts: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=323177

The last lead was a peek at dmesg, which indicated that:
[17179626.200000] eth1: no IPv6 routers present

** Affects: ndiswrapper (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Wireless fails to properly load on boot
https://launchpad.net/bugs/78074