wifi card not recognised properly

[Nigel Wilkinson]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:26:11 -0400
jack <jdangler at terremark.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 16:19 -0400, Nigel Wilkinson wrote:

> > Every thing worked fine on Xubuntu 6.10 but since I upgraded to
> > 7.04 I seem to have lost the wireless card

     snip

> > now for some reason this is showing "disabled". The laptop is an IBM
> > T23 and I know that the card is not disabled in BIOS as the machine
> > is dual boot and ubder windows its fine.
> > 

    snip

> 
> What do you get with ifconfig ?  With iwconfig?
> With hwinfo?
> 
> 
iwconfig gives

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     no wireless extensions.

irda0     no wireless extensions.

ifconfig shows no wntry for wlan0

The relevant part of hwinfo is

67: None 00.0: 1070a WLAN
  [Created at net.119]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_pci_1260_3873
  Unique ID: AYEt.QXn1l67RSa1
  Parent ID: y9sn.CA1y3f8FAiF
  SysFS ID: /class/net/wlan0
  SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:02.0
  Hardware Class: network interface
  Model: "WLAN network interface"
  Driver: "prism2_pci"
  Driver Modules: "prism2_pci"
  Device File: wlan0
  Link detected: no
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #29 (WLAN controller)

Cheers
Nigel