[Tfug] Wifi non-functional with Ubuntu 8.04

[Ray Reeves]

I had a similar problem trying to use a Airlink usb wifi adapter. Oddly enough plugging a Netgear pmcia card in found the networks easily. No software to load, etc. Amazing I thought 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Karns" <johnkarns at gmail.com> 
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org> 
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 4:45:01 PM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain Time (Arizona) 
Subject: [Tfug] Wifi non-functional with Ubuntu 8.04 

Rather than futz with an upgrade, I thought I'd try installing from 
scratch using an iso image of 8.04 I had. I thought I'd just upgrade 
from that, but accroding to the system log, the driver for the Atheros 
card seems to be falling short: 


ath0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'ath_pci'. 
ath0: driver does not support SSID scans (scan_capa 0x00). 
now managing wireless (802.11) device 'ath0'. 
deactivating device ath0. 


The same thing is happening when I try a USB dongle which uses the 
Zydos driver. I don't remember having this problem after I installed 
6.10 on this machine. 

Q) Anyone had this problem? (and have a work-around?) 


I piddled with some of the iw* utilities and was able to see the SSID 
of the AP in the info returned from iwlist, but the (sadly lacking -- 
note to self: hereafter DL the KDE version iso's) Gnome network menu 
items don't seem to lead to getting a connection up and running. 

Q) Am I better off going back to the 7.10 install I had and trying to upgrade? 

One reason I decided not to go that route was that after upgrading 
from 6.10 -> 7.04 -> 7.10 was that something got buggered and I was 
faced with what resembled DNS time-outs on about 50% of the sites I 
would try accessing. 

Thanks, 

-- 
John 

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