[solved maybe] Re: wireless giving trouble in Ubuntu recently

[C Hamel]

On Thursday 19 October 2006 11:46, H.S. wrote:
> C Hamel wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 October 2006 10:54, H.S. wrote:
> >>C Hamel wrote:
> >>>Thank you for the detailed information.  To my knowledge, I do not use
> >>>the gnome keyring.  I use KDE.  Since I do not have WEP I wonder if that
> >>>makes any difference, anyhow.
> >>
> >>I think KDE has a keyring manager also, something called KDE Walet. But
> >>if the wireless network doesn't have a wep key, just selecting a network
> >>from the nm-applet should work.
> >>
> >>->HS
> >
> > Oh!  That brings me to the nm-applet.  You must mean the WiFi Manager, I
> > guess.  That has always showed that the card is operational but there are
> > no networks --even when I am sitting right on top of one.  Did I read you
> > right, that you were experiencing the same thing?
>
> I am not using WiFi manager.  But a quick apt-cache search shows that
> there is kwifimanager for KDE.
>
> I was using nm-applet in Gnome with network-manager-gnome package. I
> think you can try with network-manager-kde package -- which perhaps will
> give you the kwifimanager though I cannot be sure.
>
> However, I was always getting the wireless network on my network manager
> but was just not able to connect to them, unlike your case where you are
> not getting anything at all. Perhaps it is a module problem in your
> case. If you are using bcm based card, what does
> $> lsmod | grep bcm
>
> give?
>
> I think you should start clean. Make sure your /etc/network/interfaces
> has only the lines with 'lo' in them (good idea to copy the file
> somewhere and then edit it). Then reboot (I think you can make do with
> restarting the networking, but reboot 'cleans' everything). Then see
> what is the output of
> $> ifconfig
>
> and then try your wifi manager to see if it scans the nearby networks.
>
> Oh, btw, make sure your wireless card's antenna is not turned off.
>
> ->HS
Okay.  The interfaces file is altered.  I also looked through the logs to see 
if there was any anomaly and did find one, perhaps:

Oct 16 10:59:46 flight6 kernel: [17179592.524000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete 
code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
Oct 16 10:59:46 flight6 kernel: [17179592.524000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete 
code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
Oct 16 10:59:46 flight6 kernel: [17179592.524000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete 
code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
Oct 16 10:59:46 flight6 kernel: [17179592.524000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete 
code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
Oct 16 10:59:46 flight6 kernel: [17179592.524000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete 
code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
Oct 16 10:59:46 flight6 kernel: [17179592.524000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete 
code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
Oct 16 10:59:46 flight6 kernel: [17179592.524000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete 
code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
Oct 16 10:59:46 flight6 kernel: [17179592.524000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete 
code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
Oct 16 10:59:46 flight6 kernel: [17179592.524000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete 
code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1134
Oct 16 10:59:46 flight6 kernel: [17179592.524000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete 
code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1134
Oct 16 10:59:46 flight6 kernel: [17179592.524000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete 
code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1134
Oct 16 10:59:46 flight6 kernel: [17179592.524000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete 
code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1134

The module loaded w/o incident, however.  Guess the above is probably 
important.  I did use the fwcutter, btw.
-- 
	...CH
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