I have a Air-CB21AG-A-k9 cisco Card and trying to run it with Ubuntu 11.04. But this card doesnt seems to be plug n play device with ubuntu 11.04. As soon I inserted the card both the leds are flickering but no wireless conectivity.
View 9 RepliesWife's laptop has AR5001 Wireless Adapter laptop model is Toshiba Satellite A215
Problem : Wireless networking randomly loses connectivity and can not regain connectivity, the only apparent solution is a full power down , this is not even certain to work. The card works under Windows, she hates Windows. (I love her for this) I know it's not faulty hardware , because it will work for days on end under Windows without problems.
Things I've tried : madwifi drivers (any and all versions available) : These increase stability of the signal and seem to delay the inevitable however it still happens. When using these drivers the only option is to unload them modprobe -r then reboot then remove them again and re add them. It makes no sense why this works, and if I don't remove them prior to rebooting it will not work.
ATH5K drivers : These are pretty much junk, results are unpredictable at best, sometimes it will work perfectly for a few hours, sometimes it will not work at all. Nothing is repeatable, I can't seem to force whatever condition is causing this. rfkill does not show the wifi being blocked (hard or soft), unblocking it anyway does nothing, only way to make this work and it's iffy is to fully power down wait 5-10 minutes turn it back on and it MAY decide to work.
Firmware update : Updated the Toshiba BIOS to the latest version of the firmware 2.0 no joy here either. Same issue both sets of drivers.
Tried different distros and kernels : I've tried Mint 9, 10 ,11 ; Ubuntu 10.10, 10.04 , 9.10 and 11.04 (which is currently installed) , Fedora and OpenSUSE. All are giving the same problems. I have also tried a slew of different kernels no joy from any of them (I'm not at the computer with the issue now I will post exactly what kernel versions I've used when I have access to the machine).
Another useful bit of information, the hard switch to disable/enable wifi WILL disable it but turning it back on does absolutely nothing. The hotkey does nothing at all. The bios does not have an option to disable or enable the wireless card.
I will also post the typical lsmod , lspci , iwconfig all that good stuff when I get back to the computer in question. I'm probably just going to buy a PC card for it and give up on that one, but this is driving me insane and I would really like to see it resolved even if I do replace the hardware.
Two Questions:
A: Can you tell me which code belongs to CB21AG code? In the directory debian/debian/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ I can see two modules written
1. pci.c and
2. ahb.c
Not sure which one to look for!!
B: If I want to build ath5k.ko module by making some changes then how to build it? If I go to directory debian/debian/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ and give make then it doesnt goes through sudipto@sudipto-ThinkPad-T61p:~/kernel_workspace/Development/source/debian/debian/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k$ make make: *** No targets. Stop. sudipto@sudipto-ThinkPad-T61p:~/kernel_workspace/Development/source/debian/debian/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k
As promised the finished (pretty much finished) wireless script can be downloaded here the wireless_script is a diagnostic tool for wireless issues. It will return all relevant information to help diagnose a wireless connectivity problem, return connectivity stats and attempt to fix common problems such as blocks. It comes in cli - wireless_script_1.2.sh or gui - wireless_script_zenity_1.2.sh'
Let me know any issues you have with it. My contact details are in the readme.txt (also the wireless results.txt generated by running the script includes code tags for forums - so please copy and paste the whole document when pasting on forums to enable this function)
Does anyone have a driver for Cisco Aironet PCMCIA AIR-CB21AG-A-K9 wireless adapter that works with Ubuntu 11.04? Ubuntu does not see the card when plugged into the PCMCIA slot. I thought that if Ubuntu had a driver installed, it would pick up the device.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI just installed Ubuntu 10.10. I was using iBall N 150M USB adapter for internet connection with Windows XP. Let me explain about the present Windows connection :
I am using an Outdoor CPE Wimax. For mobility purpose I have connected this wimax to one LAN port of ADSL+ WiFi router ( Beetel 450 TC1 ). This ADSL+wifi router reset to Factosy settings and enabled DHCP. With this setting , I am perfectly able to connect my laptop to Internet.
When I connect my USB adapter to Ubuntu , intially it detected the signal and asked for credentials. I gave the same and network established. But I am not able to browse the net. If I give [URL]..., its going to the ADSL+Wifi's diagnosis page. With Windows , [URL]... was going to the Wimax modem. After 2-3 trial and error , now Ubuntu also not able to connect to the wifi network.
Just recently I've been having strange connectivity problems with my wireless network. The connection has previously worked fine and haven't had any problems with it. I haven't installed anything that would have affect it as far as I know. how do I go about testing the network to see where the problem lies? I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 with a Netgear WG111v2 wireless adapter and my guess is it is some strange configuration problem or a rogue application is eating up packets because the system works fine when I boot it up into Windows.
When I try to ping my router I'll usually get something like 98% packet loss. However in the output below, the network sprang to life half way through my pings so it went up to 63%. What other tools can I try to find out what's going on?
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alex@obsidian:~/dev $ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1a:4d:4e:03:3f
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
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May I please have some help configuring wireless connectivity?I just moved and went from connecting to a LAN infrastructure to connecting with a wireless cable modem. The modem is dual-purpose, it has two ports, one for an Ethernet cable, and an access point for a wireless connection. The ISP is CableOne. My laptop, which I use most often, is wireless capable, and I want to use the wireless feature. The laptop is running Fedora 13 KDE, with a VirtualBox virtual drive running WinXP.
I have used NetworkManager to create a wireless connection and name it. I have also used WPA encryption for this because I don't want anybody else using my bandwidth. Moreover, I have tried no encryption and WEP, all to no avail.
The problem is I have a wireless Belkin router which I can connect to, but after being connected for a few minutes the net disappears (cuts from the router) and my laptop will have to reconnect again to the router for internet to work again. After a few minutes (or seconds in some cases) the connectivity loss will happen again over an over.
How to fix this problem or some things I can try, I've tried updating to two different firmwares, two different channels and resetting the router. The biggest problem I find is that this happens on both my laptop, another laptop in the house and also my tablet PC but doesn't happen on two other laptops in the house, I've also tested with windows 7 and Ubuntu with my laptop.
My laptop wireless card is Atheros AR9285 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter
I have just upgraded to 10.04 and can't get wireless connectivity because the STA driver for bcm4312 fails to activate. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I had had similar problems in 9.10 and tried to install bcmwl-kernel-source which apparently caused errors in the upgrade process. Not sure if this is part of the problem.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm setting up my first Linux laptop with Ubuntu 11.04 and my CB21ag wireless card works, but won't achieve speeds over 11Mbps (maybe not "doing 802.11g rates for some reason?) I guess this cardbus card is manufactured by Atheros for Cisco so I maybe that's why I'm seeing two wireless connections - the one with the "airo" driver gives me 11mbps, the other with the ATH driver would only get me 1mbps so I deleted that. The card seems to disconnect/reconnect periodically too - messages pop up frmo the wireless icon ...
lsmod says "airo" and "ath5k" are loaded
So to get 54Mbps (802.11g speed) I'm wondering if theres maybe a different driver module for the CB21ag card or some configuration I need to tweak. More info - security is static WEP, lshw -C network returns some "wierdness" about network 0 ?
-laptop:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network:0 DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b
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I got ubuntu working fine on my netbook and wanted to play around with opensuse. I have it installed and everything works fine except my wireless connection. I have updated everything since the installation through a wired connection, that didn't help. I have read the stickies, but to be honest, I'm so new to this stuff I'm kinda lost. So my wireless network has a WEP encryption and I have entered that password as a 64 HEX Key in the Wireless Manager widget. It connects to the network and says is labeled as active, however there is still the yellow exclamation shield next to the connection. Firefox and other apps don't have access to the internet.
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I have bought a new Insipirion 1464.Installed a OpenSuse 11.0 ,Gnome Desktop .
I dont have wireless connectivity in my laptop(i hve never used Wireless ).
I have done following step
1)Checked for wireless card in Hardware Information ==> was present Wireless 1397 wlan min-card from broadcom family
2)Checked for firmware dmesg|grep firmware ==>no output
3)Then checked for access points
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I'm having making network/internet connection with my laptop. I have:Toshiba 1415 S173laptop
NetGear WG511T pcmcia card using madwifiNetGear WPNT511 pcmcia card using windows driver via ndiswrapperSlackware 12.2In both cases the card is recognized, and I can get a list of access points with iwlist.I can set the card to connect to the desired access point. I can use dhclient to get an ip address from the remote dhcp server. This works, the card is assigned a valid ip address on the desired network.Once I do this, however, I cannot access any network resources, no Internet, and no other devices on the network can see, ping, or access my laptop. It does this with with both cards, using madwifi or the windows driver via ndiswrapper.
I have a server with two ethernet ports. I configured eth0 to be static, set at 10.1.10.148. I plugged in another router into the other ethernet port in order to configure that router. I configured eth1 to use dhcp. Using /etc/network/interfaces rather than gnome network manager. When I did this, I lost internet connectivity (internet routes through eth0 of course)
- Why did I lose internet connectivity?
In order to recover internet activity, I had to disconnect the new router on eth1 of course, and do sudo ifdown eth1. That wasn't enough however. After rebooting numerous times and pulling out my hair, I finally tried configuring eth0 as dhcp, rather than static, and this fixed the problem.
- Why didn't sudo ifdown eth1 solve the problem? What information was saved between reboots that somehow remembered that I plugged in the new router? Because my thinking was if /etc/network/interfaces was identical, and the network topology was identical, after a reboot everything should be restored, but it wasn't.
I use a laptop with a built-in WiFi card (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] using iwl3945 module). It's OK but sometimes is not very stable, occasionaly it simply dies and I have to reboot. It was even worse but I improved it by applying a new driver.I also have a very nice USB WiFi card (D-Link System DWA-140 802.11n Adapter [ralink rt2870]). It's much better and faster.
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I got a connection but it was incredibly slow like getting maybe 5k a second so I open network tools in administration menu and start pinging google. While I'm waiting on a bandwidth test to complete and it takes off getting like 20mbit keeps that connection for a while then out of nowhere just drops to almost nothing. Again for a few minutes then falls off completely so I restart and it does the exact same thing starts off slow then something clicks and it works great for 5 min then nothing?
How can i check my FTP is working properly or not? or check out this connectivity?
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Trying to get the wired nic working so I can troubleshoot the wireless. I cannot get any kind of network activity. Been searching so I will post a little information that seems to be common with my situation.
lshw -C network
reveals:
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
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