I have an old laptop on 12.04. The wireless connection was working fine till two days back, but now it connects and disconnects immediately and then ask for authentication, and the cycle goes on. I think it happened after an update, though I don't remember what update it was. When I boot with windows partition, the wireless works fine. I had stopped using windows, 2 years back, but now I am forced to use it because of the wireless problem. Please help me.
My system outputs are:
$ uname -a
Linux umesh-TravelMate-4020 3.2.0-32-generic-pae #51-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 26 21:54:23 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ lshw -C network
*-network:0
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:06:03.0
logical name: eth1
version: 05
serial: 00:12:f0:d6:e8:22
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.2kmprq firmware=ABG:9.0.5.27 (Dec 12 2007) latency=32 link=no maxlatency=24 mingnt=3 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
resources: irq:17 memory:b010b000-b010bfff
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401 100Base-T
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 8
bus info: pci@0000:06:08.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:c0:9f:c0:11:4c
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.7 latency=32 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:16 memory:b0106000-b0107fff memory:84000000-8401ffff
$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"\x08p\xD4\xB2\x8A)TH\x9A\x0A\xBC\xD5\x0E\x1 8\xA8D\xAC[\xF3\x8EL\xD7-\x9B\x09B\xE5\x06\xC43\xAF\xCD"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:80 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
$ iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:1BA:2C:A1:08
ESSID:"ceeicf"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=89/100 Signal level=-40 dBm
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon: 180ms ago
Cell 02 - Address: B0:B2C:1D:E0:A1
ESSID:"ICF"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=23/100 Signal level=-85 dBm
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon: 12592ms ago
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
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