wireless giving trouble in Ubuntu recently

[Eric Lemoine]

On 10/19/06, C Hamel <yogich at sc2000.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 October 2006 21:49, H.S. wrote:
> <SNIP>
> >
> > > Just a question : does it work if you manually configure
> > > /etc/network/interfaces or is the problem lying somewhere else?
> >
> > I just tried manually as well, using iwconfig command to set the essid,
> > the key and also the access point without success.
> >
> > BTW, I am using a D-Link DWL-G520 in master mode in another PC on my
> > home lan. Thus that PC is a wireless router. If I use tcpdump on that pc
> > to listen on the wireless device when I am trying to get a dhcp address
> > from that machine on the laptop running Ubuntu, I see no traffic at all.
> >
> > Also, a Mac laptop and the same laptop in Windows (which dual boots with
> > Ubuntu) works okay.
> >
> > It is only Ubuntu that the problem seems to be in.
> >
> > ->HS
> I am having probs, as well.  Gentoo, SuSE both worked (ndiswrapper) but
> kubuntu seems to not want to give me any throughput (both ndiswrapper &
> bcm43xx).  I actually started a thread yesterday morning about this.  My card
> is active but invalid access point --even when I am on top of the AP.
> Doesn't matter what network I try to access --airports, Starbucks,
> Barnes/Noble, whatever.  Set the ESSID to 'ANY'.
>
> There is a sniffer tool and I cannot, for the life of me, remember what that
> tool is.  It's connected to the wireless tools pkg.  Haven't tried that, for
> obvious reasons.

One more question : does dmesg tell you something is wrong with
bcm43xx when you try to configure wireless?

-- 
Eric