Ubuntu Networking :: 9.10 - Disable PRO / Wireless 2915ABG (Thinkpad X41)
Feb 19, 2010
I use this Thinkpad mostly for work while traveling, and wireless connectivity is not a big issue for me. Battery life is a big issue, however. I've just converted from Mandriva. With that, I was able to disable the wireless adapter so that it did nothing at all on boot - and only started on my instruction. This made a dramatic difference to battery life! How to achieve this in Ubuntu? The file attached gives all the info about my wireless set-up as it stands.
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Oct 5, 2010
Running 10.10RC on an IBM Thinkpad T43. My wireless drops out intermittently, it could DL a gig or two fine then without any warnings just drops, I have to reboot. Here is the lspci, its using ipw2200 driver.
0b:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1011
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
Memory at b4001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ipw2200
Kernel modules: ipw2200
From var/log/messages
Oct 6 11:25:12 cisco-thinkpad kernel: [74828.021204] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
Oct 6 12:00:44 cisco-thinkpad kernel: [76959.435841] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Oct 6 12:01:22 cisco-thinkpad kernel: [76997.835485] WARNING! power/level is deprecated; use power/control instead
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Dec 16, 2010
My system hangs within a few minutes after I turn on the Intel Pro/Wireless 2915ABG interface built into my motherboard or if I boot with the interface turned on. I have been having this problem for a couple of years and tried to fix it myself from time to time. (I think that I even asked for help in the Forum once.) The wireless interface used to work fine with Ubuntu and I kept hoping that the problem would "magically" disappear with each upgrade. I also read about the recent problems with ndiswrapper and similar interfaces. But this doesn't seem to be my problem. The entries in /var/log/messages just prior to the last hang were
Dec 15 09:09:47 periwinkle rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.2.0" x-pid="824" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] rsyslogd was HUPed, type 'lightweight'.
Dec 15 09:09:47 periwinkle rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.2.0"
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I don't know what process gdb was trying to trace. Since I was testing the system, I was only running Firefox, which has always triggered the problem. The output from "dmesg | grep -e ndis -e ipw" was
[ 19.121563] libipw: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[ 19.121566] libipw: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[ 19.161180] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[code]....
In previous version of Ubuntu, the messages just before the hang used to complain about the firmware in the interface being buggy. I intended to send the output from iwconfig and "sudo iwlist eth1 scan" as well. But I can't turn on the interface without hanging the system and thereby destroying this post.
I just upgraded from the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 10.4 to 10.10 over the network using the Update Manager. But when I chose the "About Ubuntu" option from the System menu, I was surprised to see it say that I am running Natty Narwhal 11.4. My system is a Linux Certified LC2464T [URL]
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Jan 11, 2011
I am on an IBM thinkpad t43 using backtrack 4 r2. Wireless works in windows (/dev/sda1), openSUSE 11.3 (/dev/sda2), but not backtrack (sda3)
Code:
#cat /proc/pci
02:02.0 network Controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network
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Dec 29, 2009
I have installed Fedora 12 on my laptop and subsequently spent most of the day trying to get the wireless connection to work. Looks like I am not alone with Wireless issues Through searching and reading today I think the problem lies with the fact that the wireless on/off switch is not working. Under Windows, when I press the wifi toggle switch it starts flashing orange. I haven't managed to get it to do anything under Fedora.
# lspci | grep Wireless
06:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
# iwconfig
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Feb 25, 2011
what it takes to get my wireless back up and working. It used to work fine under 10.4 My laptop is a IBM Thinkpad T42, that uses Intel wired and wireless nics. (correction, looks like the wireless nic is actually Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) )
-Laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
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Feb 9, 2011
I have a pretty new Lenovo Thinkpad L412, with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I can't log in to any wireless network (I have dual boot with Win 7 and it works there). The available networks shows up in the list but I can't connect them, "no network connection" it says.
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May 29, 2011
I have a Thinkpad E420 and am having major problems getting the RTL8188ce wireless to work. I'm running 64-bit. I was following instructions from this thread: [URL]
I installed the drivers from the Realtek website for the updated kernel (URL is in the previous thread link). Modprobe didn't work, but it looked like wireless drivers were installed anyway after I did "make install." But I still run into this problem in the network manager: Enable Wireless is checked, but above it, Wireless Networks is greyed out with "wireless is disabled" underneath.
Later in that thread, someone posted a link to a PPA with drivers that should work. I could not get the PPA to work through terminal, but I did manually download and install those drivers. Same problem.
lspci:
Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
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Sep 1, 2011
I just recently purchased a Lenovo Thinkpad e520 and I'm wanting to put Ubuntu 11.04 on it. I downloaded the 64bit iso and burned it to a thumb-drive, just before booting the thumb-drive. I have not yet installed Ubuntu, but rather I'm still running it from a thumb-drive. I want to make sure everything will work fine, before installing it permanently.
However, it doesn't appear as if any drivers for my wireless card were loaded, as I can't view the available wireless networks. I successfully installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my desktop several months ago and I haven't booted into Windows since, -not one time. Therefore, I'm hoping to have my new laptop run Ubuntu as well.
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Oct 27, 2010
I have a Thinkpad W500 with:
Code:
Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5300
I have Ubuntu 10.04 32bit installed:
Code:
Linux dani-laptop 2.6.32-25-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 19:48:22 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
It has been working fine since I installed 10.04 but recently (end of last week I think) it stared dropping the wireless connection very often. So it will disconnect and reconnect, but I can't seem to find a pattern, sometimes it goes for hours without an issue and sometimes it does it several times in a row. Below is an extract of syslogs from when this happens. But not sure if what I need is there... the only weird thing I can see is:
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Oct 27 18:58:33 username-laptop wpa_supplicant[1296]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
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Oct 27 18:58:32 username-laptop wpa_supplicant[1296]: Trying to associate with 00:1e:be:a6:c0:0f (SSID='accessp' freq=5280 MHz)
Oct 27 18:58:32 username-laptop NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: completed -> associating
Oct 27 18:58:32 username-laptop kernel: [123835.372217] wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:1e:7a:6f:d9:90 by local choice (reason=3) .....
Oct 27 18:59:29 username-laptop ntpdate[4765]: no server suitable for synchronization found
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Jul 21, 2009
I tried fix I pointed here http://fedoramobile.org/Members/MrHappy/troubleshootingNetworkManager fails to see wireless networks with Intel 3945 chipsets(solution deals with the kernel module not with NetworkManager)but nothing to do. My actual problem is I can't see my wireless network but I see just those of my neighbours.I know mine is working because I can connect to using a Mac and windows.
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Jan 21, 2011
Edit: after upgrading everything using a usb to ethernet port converter ndiswrapper is working perfectly
I do not have internet access on a laptop I am trying to upgrade. It has no ethernet port. I may resort to buying a USB to ethernet adapter but I spent more than I would like to have already. I have tried every command in the HOWTO for wireless difficulties and posted the output.
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Feb 18, 2011
I have Ubuntu 10.10 on a thinkpad X201. Wireless was working, but has stopped. It still works in windows, so it is not a hardware problem. iwlist wlan0 scan sees the available networks, but I cannot associate with any of them, including my own.
Last night was my first attempt to connect to a secured network, and nm-applet failed to make the connection even after entering the WEP encryption key and SSID. By turning networking off in nm-applet I was able to manually bring up the connection by editing /etc/network/interfaces and using ifup wlan0. (nm-applet seemed to be interfering as long as networking was turned on there.) Wireless was working perfectly until I rebooted. Now I can't get it to work at all. (There were some partially completed security updates which completed when I rebooted. I hope this wasn't the cause of the breakdown.)I notice that wpa_supplicant is always running. I tried killing it in case it might be interfering with the connection process, but something keeps restarting it.
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Mar 8, 2011
I have just bought a used Lenovo Thinkpad R61. Most of the things works in Squeeze like it did with Vista. But a bit annoying is that when i Vista with the "Fn-F5" could turn both wireless and bluetooth on and off. Now it is only wireless that works that way. On the top panel i can turn both wireless and bluetooth on and off, but it is still annnnoying. Is the a way to make all keys funktion on my Thinkpad?
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Sep 7, 2009
When I log in to linx and connect to my University's public wifi, it disconnects or if it stays connected, I cannot ping anything or load any webpages. But when loggod in to windows I can write this message now. Signal strength is 28% Can anything be done to still use wifi in linux and not have to log in to windows?
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May 22, 2011
lshw -C network:
Code:
*-network
description: Wireless interface
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Jan 12, 2011
I recently installed ubuntu 10.4 LTS on my IBM T60 ThinkPad, (Love Ubuntu! Will Never go back to Windows)
But now the problem is as followed.: When i'm at work where they have an open (Non protected) WiFi spot i have no problems connecting at all. But as soon as i'm at home or with friends which have WEP/WPA/WPA2 encrypted routers it is impossible to connect, to none of them. not Linksys, not Dlink not Thomsom, simply none. For days i've been hunting the internet for information about this problem but it is impossible for me to find the solution. I've read the Wireless troubleshooting manual from Ubuntu and did all the checks and tests and everything seems fine. The card is an Intel 3945ABG, and in the new Linux Kernels its already pre-installed. It's so frustrating not beeing able to use the internet in a proper way..
Note:
I installed wireshark to experiment at my workplace but its finding nothing at all even though its connected to the internet/LAN Etherape works fine though.
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May 11, 2011
I've had a host of problems since upgrading to 11.04 Natty Narwhal, so let's deal with these 1 at a time.
I've got a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion G60 laptop. Next to the power button is a handy wireless on/off button. This has always worked well with previous editions (9.04,through 10.10). first press toggles the wireless off, second press toggles it on.
Not so in 11.04. The toggle off works great, first time. But, it will not toggle back on. Not after any number of tries, not after restarting, not after booting into other OS's (9.10 and Vista) re-enabling it there and then booting back into Narwhal. to further complicate the issue, this feature bypass the network manager, so toggling the wireless off by the switch leaves me showing no wireless adapter in the network manager. I also restarted, switched from Unity to a Gnome session, but the issue still persists.
As my only network options are wireless, this has become a substantial inconvenience.
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EDIT: so the network util is actually saying "wireless disabled by hardware switch". Also noticed it I enable it in 9.10, reboot to 11.04 (where I inevitably fail to re-enable it), then reboot into 9.10, it will initially be disabled. The key difference is in 9.10 I have the ability to enable wifi using the hardware button. It seems that 11.04 is remembering that wireless is disabled between boots. Is there a place it might be storing this value? If so, I may be able simply to set the value as enabled, since toggling that silly button isn't working.
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EDIT 2:
found this thread:"Wireless disabled by hardware switch" bug? - Natty
seems to be a similar issue. I'll be following how that one develops, too.
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Jan 29, 2011
My wireless can connect to my router without a problem, but in order to do so (after boot) I must first disable networking in the Notification Area and then re-enable it. I don't mind it too much, but when other people use my computer, it's made painfully obvious to me, that this was never an issue with Windows 7 (as much as I despise MS).
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Feb 14, 2010
I don't use wireless on my desktop so i would like it permanently disabled...each time i boot up it's back and receving up to 80mb of data from an unknown connection via wireless (i dont use wireless) so, to avoid any weird connections to my neighboors house or some kid hacking the neighborhood driving by with a wireless router in his truck i'd like to permanently turn off wireless. this is kind of funny because i had a hard time getting wireless to work on my laptop, but this is my desktop where i do not want it. i looked it up and your forum back in 2007 said to type in iwconfig in the shell then get the nickname of the wireless card then to black list the wireless card. i did this but it didn't work, so what do i do now? i have ubuntu 9.10
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May 1, 2010
I have an old T30 that has an incompatible wireless card with my network. How can I disable the builtin wireless card while allowing my USB Linksys card to fully function?I can't figure out how to have one run while disabling the other.
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Jul 4, 2010
I'm running 10.04 LTS
I have loaded ndiswrapper and managed to get my D-Link usb dongle working (this is wireless N) but I need to disable my laptops built in rtl8187B wireless (they both connect at log on).
In Windows I just turn of the wireless switch but in Ubuntu this disables all wireless. I think I have to black list the rtl8178b driver.
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Nov 15, 2010
I recently bought a new nettop and installed Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop. Unfortunately the on-board wlan is kind of crap so I bought a USB Wireless stick and since that stick has a pretty recent chipset ndis was needed to get the USB stick to work as wlan1.
The issue is I want to disable the on-board wlan (wlan0). The BIOS does not offer that option so it needs to be done in the OS I guess. My question is what is the best way of doing so? I've read something about blacklisting or editing 10-wlan.rules but I am unsure what the best place is and what to put there.
This the output of ifconfig:
Quote:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:2e:2b:a7:b0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
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Feb 2, 2011
My laptop is running Ubuntu 10.04. It has both wired and wireless LAN interfaces. I would like to have a startup script that would disable the wireless NIC if there is connectivity on the wired NIC. Does anyone have such a script, or advice on how to write one?
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Mar 10, 2011
Ubuntu, but I like it, and I'm trying to see how powerful it is.I got a non function wireless network card. Here the information that I be able to collect:
- Tabletop HP Compaq tc4200.
- OS Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Linux.
- Wireless interface: Pro/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection. Vendor: Intel
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Mar 20, 2011
I am doing some experiments comparing the performance of wireless under 3 different cases:
(i) without media sensing (carrier sensing).
(ii) with media sensing but no RTS/CTS
(iii) with media sensing and RTS/CTS
I know RTS/CTS can be controlled by iwconfig interface rts {N|auto|fixed|off}
However, what about media sensing? Can it be disabled? If yes, how?
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May 10, 2011
My Intel 5100 AGN adapter works horribly in Ubuntu. I want to disable it, so I can use a USB wireless adapter that works normally.
I cannot find a reliable way to permanently do this.
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May 16, 2011
I have an issue with my on-board wireless card (powers down after about 5 minutes) so I'm stuck with a USB card. I don't use the on-board card and it causes the system to intermittently hang if it's powered on (once I run ifconfig wlan0 down, the system runs fine). Is there a way to power down the interface (or better yet prevent it from powering on) at boot?
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May 17, 2011
11.04 64 bit I just picked up a new high-gain usb wireless adapter that I would like to use for a while in place of the built in wireless adapter in my desktop. It is detected and works just fine. My question is this: Is there any way I can disable just the built in adapter and leave the new one active (or visa versa?) I don't want to remove the built-in one as there will be occasions that I will want to use both.
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Dec 25, 2010
Disable internal wireless card & enable external? Can I do this really by network-manager or should I use some other program. If I plug-in external both are connected. If I disable internal by laptop button, I cannot enable wireless anymore in nm-applett (external on).
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