I have an Acer Aspire One 721. I installed 10.10 netbook from a
live-cd, then added edubuntu for the kids.
To work around kernel bug # 24032, I set the kernel option
"nohpet".
With 8.1, network connections were always off after power up or
resume. I had hit Fn-F3 hot-keys to turn on the wireless
transmitter, and I had to enable wireless in the network-manager
applet each time. Also, the applet was only available to the first
user to login on this computer, usually me, so the wife and
grandkids could not enable the network when they logged in.
I upgraded from network-manager 8.1 to test 8.3 from a Natty
repository.
Now, network manager will operate the wired ethernet correctly, but
on power-up the wireless transmitter LED is always off, and Fn-F3
won't turn it on. After resume, the transmitter is always on and
Fn-F3 won't turn it off, but network manager has wireless disabled
in the applet. Even though the transmitter is now on, Enabling
wireless in the applet has no effect; network manager doesn't appear
to scan for wireless signals and no connection is made.
After messing with it a bit (enabling and disabling wireless,
unplugging and plugging in ethernet), the Fn-F3 keys will turn LED
on and off, but still no wireless connection.
Does anyone have any suggestions? should I report a bug?
This is my interfaces file:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# auto eth0
# iface eth0 inet dhcp
And this is from the terminal:
steve@Aspiration:~$ sudo lshw -C network
PCI (sysfs)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c0
serial: 20:6a:8a:13:55:76
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list
ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd
autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes
driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.0.2-NAPI firmware=N/A latency=0
link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:43 memory:d0200000-d023ffff
ioport:a000(size=128)
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM43225 802.11b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 5c:ac:4c:81:b2:4a
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0
driverversion=5.60.48.36 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE
802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 memory:d0300000-d0303fff
steve@Aspiration:~$
steve@Aspiration:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11 Access Point: Not-Associated
Link Quality:5 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0
steve@Aspiration:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 20:6a:8a:13:55:76
inet6 addr: fe80::226a:8aff:fe13:5576/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4926 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4812 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:7
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4021022 (4.0 MB) TX bytes:604082 (604.0 KB)
Interrupt:43
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:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1200 (1.2 KB) TX bytes:1200 (1.2 KB)
steve@Aspiration:~$
Hope someone can help!
--Steve
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