No WLAN on Feisty-Laptop

[Jörg Czeschla]

Hi all,

feisty ist driving me crazy! After crashing my kubuntu-edgy in case of an 
upgrade via adept manager (see thread above) I installed feisty on my acer 
aspire 1700 laptop but it doesn't recognize my wlan-card. The system-settings 
only show the ethernet-adapter eth0 which works fine.
I tried several hints found in www and uninstalled network-manager too but it 
won't work.

webs at eric:~$ lspci
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast 
Ethernet (rev 91)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus 
Controller
00:0b.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset 
(rev 01)

webs at eric:~$ lsmod | grep hostap_pci
hostap_pci             56848  0
hostap                113924  1 hostap_pci

webs at eric:~$ lsmod | grep orinoco
orinoco_pci             8064  0
orinoco                43028  1 orinoco_pci
hermes                  8448  2 orinoco_pci,orinoco

webs at eric:~$ less /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

iface ra0 inet static
address 192.168.1.103
netmask 255.255.255.0
wireless-essid wirelesswebs
wireless-key xxxxxxxxx
gateway 192.168.1.1

webs at eric:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     no wireless extensions.

webs at eric:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Protokoll:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 00:C0:9F:31:94:56
          inet Adresse:192.168.1.103  Bcast:192.168.255.255  Maske:255.255.0.0
          inet6 Adresse: fe80::2c0:9fff:fe31:9456/64 
Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:359 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
          RX bytes:162224 (158.4 KiB)  TX bytes:55446 (54.1 KiB)
          Interrupt:22 Basisadresse:0x2000

lo        Protokoll:Lokale Schleife
          inet Adresse:127.0.0.1  Maske:255.0.0.0
          inet6 Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0
          RX bytes:12752 (12.4 KiB)  TX bytes:12752 (12.4 KiB)

What's wrong with my box?

Joerg