Wireless Not Working

[kierpaul]

Hello Ubuntu Community,

I have trouble with my Zydas USB wireless card. It is recognized but does not seem to load the driver or firmware in the kernel for some reason. I went through the directions for opening a wireless ticket have posted the outputs below. This happened after upgrading to Karmic, was ok in 9.04. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated. Do I need to use Ndiswrapper? I tried this but Ndiswrapper seems to completely malfunction in so much that it causes my wireless USB to not be recognized. It seems it was looking for a zd1211ub firmware and other places it is looking for zd1211rw. Confusion! Here is the info on my system:

MSI 865PE ICH5 Chipset (2GB Mem PENT 4)

lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0ace:1215 ZyDAS WLA-54L WiFi
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub


lsusb -nn | grep
*no information on this command*


iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off

vboxnet0 no wireless extensions.

lsmod
*gives this info about wireless driver*

zd1211rw 45216 0
ip_tables 11692 3 iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter
mac80211 210408 1 zd1211rw
snd 59204 14 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_ oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_ti mer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 7264 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9156 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
x_tables 16544 9 xt_limit,xt_tcpudp,ipt_LOG,ipt_MASQUERADE,xt_DSCP, ipt_REJECT,xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_tables
cfg80211 130440 2 zd1211rw,mac80211


lsmod | grep zd1211rw
zd1211rw 45216 0
mac80211 210408 1 zd1211rw
cfg80211 130440 2 zd1211rw,mac80211


dmesg

345.317787] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.331110] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.344433] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.357760] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.371080] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.384408] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.397728] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.411047] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.424370] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.437693] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.446266] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.451015] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.464339] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.477663] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.490984] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.504312] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.517630] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.530953] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 345.544280] serial8250: too much work for irq16
[ 1139.752310] usb 1-3: firmware: requesting zd1211/zd1211b_ub
[ 1139.759455] usb 1-3: Could not load firmware file zd1211/zd1211b_ub. Error number -2
[ 1139.759466] zd1211rw 1-3:1.0: couldn't load firmware. Error number -2


lshw -C network

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: b
bus info: pci@0000:02:0b.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:16:17:4a:91:20
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.103 latency=32 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:23 ioport:c800(size=256) memory:feafef00-feafefff memory:80000000-8000ffff(prefetchable)
*-network:0 DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:11:6b:3b:e7:ca
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
*-network:1 DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: vboxnet0
serial: 0a:00:27:00:00:00
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes


iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Failed to read scan data : Network is down

vboxnet0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

iwlist scan wlan0

*no information due to network being down* (My Emphasis)


lsb_release -d

Description: Ubuntu 9.10

uname -mr
2.6.31-14-generic i686


sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... * Stopping the Firestarter firewall...
...done.
* Starting the Firestarter firewall...
...done.
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 3250
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:16:17:4a:91:20
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:16:17:4a:91:20
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:16:17:4a:91:20
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:16:17:4a:91:20
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.103 from 192.168.1.1
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.103 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.1.103 from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.103 -- renewal in 298235 seconds.
* Stopping the Firestarter firewall...
...done.
* Starting the Firestarter firewall...
...done.

[kierpaul]

Solved.....Installed Linux Mint 7 and everything works nicely. There is little difference between the two operating systems with the exception that things tend to work better with Mint. Ubuntu is a nice operating system, but after Intrepid Ibex, the upgrades take out things that were working well (graphics, wireless, virtual boxes, etc)and seem to be getting progressively worse. I will stay a member of this forum in case I can help some people, but I am done with Ubuntu for now. There will be no way to win people over from Windows with these kinds of problems.

[soupowl]

I agree, I have the same problem, it seems to relate to my ZyDAS WLA-54L wireless adaptor. Does anyone know of a USB type wireless adaptor that works well with 9.10? I'm thinking i may have to go back to jaunty otherwise, i can't help thinking they should have delayed the release of 9.10