Hi, Somebody have a hint for my connection problem with a DLINK dwa-160 with ar9170 driver With a dualboot on the same PC on XP=SP3 it works fine but on 10.04LTS it connects on wlan1 but I cannot reach the network If I do restart the deamon > service networking restart I get restart: Unknown instance: and a ping gives me > ping 192.168.0.1 PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted --- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3023ms My config is DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS" Linux giboule 2.6.32-30-generic-pae #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 23:01:33 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux Data and proof of connection here > lsmod | grep 9170 ar9170usb 51328 0 mac80211 205402 1 ar9170usb led_class 2864 1 ar9170usb ath 7611 1 ar9170usb cfg80211 126528 3 ar9170usb,mac80211,ath > ifconfig wlan1 wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr f0:7d:68:11:91:91 inet adr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Masque:255.255.255.0 adr inet6: fe80::f27d:68ff:fe11:9191/64 Scope:Lien UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Packets re├ºus:108 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000 Octets re├ºus:8801 (8.8 KB) Octets transmis:5250 (5.2 KB) > iwconfig wlan1 wlan1 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"VO240Z4122" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:18:E7:DB:D9:B9 Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=45/70 Signal level=-65 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > lshw -C network *-network description: Ethernet interface product: NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 logical name: eth0 version: 01 serial: 00:12:3f:53:ef:9c capacity: 1GB/s width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.102 firmware=5751-v3.29a latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair resources: irq:16 memory:ddff0000-ddffffff *-network description: Wireless interface physical id: 1 logical name: wlan1 serial: f0:7d:68:11:91:91 capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes ip=192.168.0.101 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg > nm-tool NetworkManager Tool State: connected - Device: eth0 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Type: Wired Driver: tg3 State: unavailable Default: no HW Address: 00:12:3F:53:EF:9C Capabilities: Carrier Detect: yes Wired Properties Carrier: off - Device: wlan1 [VO240Z4122] ----------------------------------------------- Type: 802.11 WiFi Driver: ar9170usb State: connected Default: yes HW Address: F0:7D:68:11:91:91 Capabilities: Speed: 1 Mb/s Wireless Properties WEP Encryption: yes WPA Encryption: yes WPA2 Encryption: yes Wireless Access Points (* = current AP) *VO240Z4122: Infra, 00:18:E7:DB:D9:B9, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 64 WPA2 Nana: Infra, 00:18:E7:C6:26:D0, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 42 WPA IPv4 Settings: Address: 192.168.0.101 Prefix: 24 (255.255.255.0) Gateway: 192.168.0.1 DNS: 192.168.0.1 > cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/VO240Z4122 [connection] id=VO240Z4122 uuid=de3cb514-1e61-4801-9e39-be0a4379f3c9 type=802-11-wireless autoconnect=true timestamp=1301711598 [802-11-wireless-security] key-mgmt=wpa-psk wep-tx-keyidx=0 psk=ujkquhtgcca wep-key-type=0 [ipv4] method=auto ignore-auto-routes=false ignore-auto-dns=false dhcp-send-hostname=false never-default=false [ipv6] method=ignore ignore-auto-routes=false ignore-auto-dns=false never-default=false [802-11-wireless] ssid=86;79;50;52;48;90;52;49;50;50;<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cols="10" frame="VOID" rules="NONE"> <tbody><tr><td align="RIGHT" height="17" width="86"></td><td align="RIGHT" width="86"></td><td align="RIGHT" width="86"> </td><td align="RIGHT" width="86"></td><td align="RIGHT" width="86"></td><td align="RIGHT" width="86"> </td><td align="RIGHT" width="86"> </td><td align="RIGHT" width="86"></td></tr></tbody></table>mode=infrastructure channel=0 bssid=0:18:e7:db:d9:b9 rate=0 tx-power=0 mac-address=f0:7d:68:11:91:91 mtu=0 seen-bssids=00:18:e7:db:d9:b9; security=802-11-wireless-security > cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback I'll appreciate wour help Thank you Norm -- <div style="display: inline;"></div> <div style="visibility: hidden; display: inline;" id="avg_ls_inline_popup"></div><style type="text/css">#avg_ls_inline_popup { position:absolute; z-index:9999; padding: 0px 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 240px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word; color: black; font-size: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 13px;}</style>