wireless, Broadcom & jaunty

[NoOp]

On 05/06/2009 03:59 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
> NoOp wrote:

>>           Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm
>>           Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
>>           Power Management:off
>>           Link Quality=56/100  Signal level:-54 dBm  Noise level=-71 dBm
>>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> Here I have a difference as in my case it says:
> ... Access Point: Not-Associated
> And I think that there the problem is shown.
> When looking in dmesg it shows eth0 associated with the MAC-address of 
> the wireless router but apparently it loses it shortly thereafter.
> I think due to the fact it can't get an IP-address.
> It's something in the kernel modules that doesn't work correctly.
> The problem is that in Hardy it worked although I had to restart the 
> network with ifdown eth0, followed by ifup eth0 every time the system 
> awakened.
> I suspect that in one of the many config scripts something is not right, 
> but which one I don't know as I don't know all scripts related to 
> networking.
> Maybe Derek or Gary has an idea?
> 

I'm afraid that I'm out of further suggestions other than perhaps
purging wicd and reinstalling. If you do that, be sure to purge so that
it will also remove the existing configuration files:

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge wicd
$ sudo apt-get install wicd

Reboot. I say reboot as I don't know if just logging out/in will
properly initialize wicd otherwise.

That may be your best bet at this point.

Note: of course, make backups of your existing should you need them
(etc/wicd). You could also try network-manager after purging wicd to see
if that works for you.

Anyone else have any other suggestions for Joep?