Karmic problem with network

[andrewkoff]

Dear gurus!

I have clean install of Karmic on laptop Acer Aspire 5739g. I also have Win7 installed.

Problem: network cards (wired and wireless) work fine in Win7, but then I boot Ubuntu 9.10 - no network!
I have googled, that Win disables network interfaces during shutting down so Ubuntu can't use it at all. It looked right - there were no green/orange LEDs lighting/flashing on ethernet port. I've changed WOL properties of network interfaces in Win7 to stay enabled after shut down and green LED light up. All that didn't fix a problem - Ubuntu network doesn't start up.

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0a74 (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be3 (rev a1)
05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Device 1063 (rev c0)

lshw -C network:

  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Wireless WiFi Link 5100
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:be000000-be001fff
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: Attansic Technology Corp.
       vendor: Attansic Technology Corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
       version: c0
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:be100000-be13ffff ioport:3000(size=128)

And there's no network interfaces in /etc/X11/interfaces except lo

I dont like those UNCLAIMED

Any help is appreciated...

[gecko1337]

Ive been looking for a solution for days now, and nothing
If you really want to use the network you'll have to turn off ACPI :/
which isnt really an option for me, so please if anyone out there has an answer

[andrewkoff]

Thanx a lot, gecko1337!
Turning off ACPI really helps.
At least now I can install some software.
I hope next kernel release will cure ACPI .

[gecko1337]

UP!
is there anything I can do to fix this or do I have to wait for a new version?

[andrewkoff]

I don't know what to do indeed...
Let's keep this thread alive - any problem can be solved. In time.
I have network working in Fedora 11 installed on this laptop. Maybe changing distro can help.

[gecko1337]

Yeah too bad, I really liked Ubuntu QQ
Ah awell you cant have it all in life
going to install Fedora/SuSe when I have time...

[necromonger]

I have a wusb54g and 9.10 picked it up at start up.please do a bug report it may help a lot of other people to.

[OstergrenDan]

I'm having this same issue with an Acer Aspire 5520-5377, which was previously running Windows Vista. I have no idea what to do to fix this problem, nor do i know how to disable an ACPI, much less even know what ACPI really functions as, and the disadvantages of allowing it to run. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[andrewkoff]

2 OstergrenDan:

To turn off ACPI you should edit (sudo required) your grub configuration file. It might be /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

1. Search content of the file for (e.g.) line:
"linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=6f2e6ee8-6477-4fd4-885f-f7a4d838938f ro quiet splash"

2. Add "acpi=off" to the end of line.

3. Save, reboot, hope and pray... Of course backup is needed.

4. Then ACPI is off, you won't have a correct power management of your laptop. Read wiki for details.

2 necromonger
Report a bug... How could we do it? I am ready, but don't know how-to.

2 gecko1337
What is the beast - Ubuntu QQ?

[OstergrenDan]

I'm very sorry to be the newbie here, but thats all a bunch of jibberish to me. =_=