Wireless Problems

[Enigmatus]

Yesterday evening, I was rather unexpectedly disconnected, and my wireless network seemingly disappeared from the face of the earth.

As far as I know, my wireless network card is working (it is still being detected by Ubuntu), and I know that my router is functioning correctly (I connected to the Internet via my PSP earlier this morning), yet when I click on the network connections symbol on the taskbar, my wireless connection is nowhere to be seen?

If it helps, I am currently running Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex).

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

[spotsworth]

what's the output from iwconfig?
lshw -C network?

[Enigmatus]

what's the output from iwconfig?

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

pan0 no wireless extensions.

Hopefully this can give you some clues as to what's happening!

[Enigmatus]

lshw -C network?

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 14
serial: 00:1b:24:3e:61:7a
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.22 firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.2 latency=0 module=sky2 multicast=yes
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 01
serial: 00:19:7e:79:e0:66
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k_pci latency=0 module=ath5k multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 1
logical name: pan0
serial: a2:55:f8:f9:13:c9
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A multicast=yes

My apologies for the delayed reply, I only just noticed your second request.

[Enigmatus]

Anyone?

[Enigmatus]

No?

[pmsumner]

OK, try this in your terminal and post the results:

lsmod | grep ath

If it returns nothing then try running:

sudo modprobe ath5k

or if this doesn't get you anything in the lsmod | grep ath thingie...

sudo modprobe ath_pci

[Enigmatus]

lsmod | grep ath

ath5k 106496 0
lbm_cw_mac80211 210728 1 ath5k
lbm_cw_cfg80211 39696 2 ath5k,lbm_cw_mac80211
led_class 12164 2 acer_wmi,ath5k

[Enigmatus]

Can anyone possibly help me with this please? I need it remedied ASAP if possible!

[CodeAlias]

what security settings are you using ? WEP/WPA ?

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