I do not know much about networking, so I need some help here. I have used Ubuntu since 8.04 and my WiFi has worked ever since. I upgraded to 11.04 today. After first boot (with a LiveCD) my the widget listed my home network, but I could not connect to it. It is protected with WPA. I have found some random terminal commands online in case that could help you figure out what is wrong here.
iwconfig
:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
ole@ole:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:d4:4d:dd:0f
inet addr:192.168.0.198 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:d4ff:fe4d:dd0f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3179 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2721 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3846076 (3.8 MB) TX bytes:340839 (340.8 KB)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0x6800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:720 (720.0 B) TX bytes:720 (720.0 B)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:cf:9b:da:1f
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lspci
:
... (shortened) ...
06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
06:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
... (shortened) ...
Update
I have been playing around to try and get it around. Since I don't know what I am doing I am trying random things. Thus far I think I have found a way to connect that works everytime.
- Boot the laptop while connected with a cable.
- Disable WiFi by right clicking the network manager
- Disable WiFi by using the physical button on my laptop
- Enable WiFi with said button
- Enable WiFi by right clicking the network manager
- After a little while it connects
Could it be related to this problem?
Any novel ideas on what this might be related to? Is there a setting that isn't properly enabled during booting?
Update 2
I tried to do the steps above without being connected with a cable on boot (Step 1) but it didn't work. But the moment I plugged in the cable, it must have kickstarted the Network Manager, because it immediately started connecting to my wireless.
I strongly feel that this is issue is connected to Network Manager not being initialized correctly. Any one with intimate knowledge of NM who can enlighten me? Or maybe even tell me how to test reinitializing NM after boot?