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    Wireless stopped working...

    Okay, back when I got my Dell Vostro 1720, it arrived with a wireless adapter - the Dell 1510 mini N card. Workd out of the box using the Broadcom STA driver with Kubuntu 9.04, and 9.10. When I did my upgrade to 10.04, I was expecting some normal breakage with some of my system configuration - specifically with some software configuartion I have (I prefer mPlayer to Dragon Player, I also use Audacuis for all my audio playback, and a few other things that I knew were goign to dramaticly change liek Java (I was using the Sun packages, which were moved to a PPA - that okay, I was planing on Migrating to Open Java). I was not expecting the wireless to stop working, but da-da, that's the only thing that broke on my update. Wireless manager shows the adapter is present, and shows the avalible access points to connect to. it is using the STA driver, but it won't connect and keep's asking me to input the WPA key. Anyone else experiancing this?
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    #2
    Re: Wireless stopped working...

    Okay, the STA driver hadn't installed properly. I used my wired connection, installed the package broadcom-sta-driver and now it works. :-)
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      #3
      Re: Wireless stopped working... [SOLVED]

      Cool. 8)

      Glad you got it resolved so quickly.
      Windows no longer obstructs my view.
      Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
      "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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        #4
        Re: Wireless stopped working...

        Alas, not really... It worked twice and back to the same problem as before.... I'm thinking this is a software bug from looking at my syslog (lot's of networkmanager and wpa_supplicant time outs during the connection phase). So at this point, all I could do is file a bug report.
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          #5
          Re: Wireless stopped working...

          remove compeltely and then reinstall the broadcom STA driver.
          IF you get a wireless connection working then open a konsole and issue
          sudo depmod -a

          "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
          – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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            #6
            Re: Wireless stopped working...

            Thx I read.

            My problem is a bit different. I dont have even the ethernet connection (eth0) so i can't access the internet from the netbook =/ . In my opinion It might be a new bug, since the older version (ubuntu remix 9.10) work. Both kernels have the ath9k (the driver module) so I don't know what can I do. I will look something on the system log to post here to describe the problem better.

            Thx again for the reply!
            Wir müssen wissen.<br />Wir werden wissen.
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              #7
              Re: Wireless stopped working...

              I forgot to mention that I tried compiling like says here http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k but the livecd doesn't have soem of the necessary packages to do it. And the ifconfig just return the 'lo'.

              I saw in the log that: the kernel found that my network was AR8285 and then the NetworkManager found the driver ath9k (for wlan0). Here what i found:
              Code:
              2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	kernel	[ 105.580942] phy0: Atheros AR9285 MAC/BB Rev:2 AR5133 RF Rev:e0: mem=0xf8a00000, irq=17
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	  Ifupdown: get unmanaged devices count: 0
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	<info> (wlan0): driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	modem-manager	Loaded plugin Huawei
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	<info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'ath9k')
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	<info> (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	modem-manager	Loaded plugin Longcheer
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	<info> (wlan0): now managed
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	<info> (wlan0): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2)
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	<info> (wlan0): bringing up device.
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	<info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	modem-manager	Loaded plugin Ericsson MBM
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	modem-manager	Loaded plugin MotoC
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	  SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:02:00.0/net/wlan0, iface: wlan0)
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	  SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:02:00.0/net/wlan0, iface: wlan0): no ifupdown configuration found.
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	<info> WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	<WARN> default_adapter_cb(): bluez error getting default adapter: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	modem-manager	Loaded plugin Nokia
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	modem-manager	Loaded plugin Novatel
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	modem-manager	Loaded plugin Option
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	modem-manager	Loaded plugin Sierra
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	<info> modem-manager is now available
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	<info> Trying to start the supplicant...
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	modem-manager	Loaded plugin ZTE
2010-05-01 16:46:45	ubuntu	NetworkManager	<info> (wlan0): supplicant manager state: down -> idle
              Wir müssen wissen.<br />Wir werden wissen.
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                #8
                Re: Wireless stopped working...

                The ath9k.ko module is present by default in Kubuntu.

                jerry@vgnfw140e:~$ locate ath9k.ko
                /lib/modules/2.6.32-19-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.ko
                /lib/modules/2.6.32-20-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.ko
                /lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.ko
                /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.ko
                jerry@vgnfw140e:~$
                Why not ...

                sudo modprobe ath9k

                If ifconfig shows ath0 then try
                sudo iwlist scanning

                to see if you see any connection points. If you do then

                sudo depmod -a

                and then start wicd or knm.
                "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
                – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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                  Re: Wireless stopped working...

                  Thx for the reply. I don't know if i follow the replies here or in the pre-installation, so I will post in both.

                  These is might be a problem ... here is the output:
                  Code:
                  ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Documents$ locate ath9k
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k                                                                   
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.ko                                                              
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Documents$ sudo modprobe ath9k
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Documents$ iwlist scanning
lo    Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0   Failed to read scan data : Network is down

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Documents$ ifconfig 
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:168 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:168 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
     RX bytes:11984 (11.9 KB) TX bytes:11984 (11.9 KB)

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Documents$ sudo depmod -a
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Documents$
                  Wir müssen wissen.<br />Wir werden wissen.
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                    #10
                    Re: Wireless stopped working...

                    My case is wierd. In the boot the network devices are turned off. In other distro (like arch, ubuntu and so on) I can turn it on and off using the OS, but in kubuntu 9.10 netbook remix no. I discovered that this was the problem and I can't change it after the boot, so the only during the boot time I need to change my network devices always be turned on. But I didn't like this workaround and I came back to ubuntu netbook remix.

                    Thanks guys for everything.
                    Wir müssen wissen.<br />Wir werden wissen.
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