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Cisco 350 wifi pccard not working Hardy

Bug #198887 reported by sarcaman
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Bug Description

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

bug present in alpha 3,4,5

Cisco 350 wifi PCcard does not appear in iwconfig/ifconfig
Kernel module does not complete activation, although correct module (airo) is loaded

dmesg shows airo module getting as far as 'doing fast BAP reads" but MAC address is never assigned, hence interface (eg wifi0) is not present or activated.

[38832.937846] pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0
[38833.724096] airo(): Probing for PCI adapters
[38833.724168] airo(): Finished probing for PCI adapters
[29127.268853] airo(): cmd:111 status:7f11 rsp0:2 rsp1:0 rsp2:0
[29127.268868] airo(): Doing fast bap_reads

>>>at this point the MAC address should be assigned but nothing more is output

I tried with the same results on result on 3 separate laptops, Pentium ll, ll, and lV.

Actual card is Cisco PCM350 firmware version 5.2.20 though I also tried with other firmware version with same result

I stared with Feisty clean install, worked fine.

Dist-Upgraded to Gutsy, still working.

Dist-Upgraded to Hardy, broken.

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thedave (thedave-ix) wrote :

I am running Hardy with both an upgrade and a fresh install on an IBM TP T40 with a Cisco MPI350.

Also, of note that inserting the module does not turn on the wireless card (or at least the LED for the wireless card).

uname says:
$ uname -a
Linux thinkpad 2.6.24-12-generic #1 SMP Wed Mar 12 23:01:54 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

lspci says:
$ sudo lspci -v -d 14b9:a504
02:02.0 Network controller: AIRONET Wireless Communications Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b
 Subsystem: AIRONET Wireless Communications Unknown device 5000
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
 I/O ports at 8000 [size=256]
 Memory at c0210000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Memory at c0400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at c0800000 [disabled] [size=2M]
 Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
 Capabilities: [48] Vital Product Data

dmesg says:
$ dmesg | grep airo
[ 18.716803] airo(): Probing for PCI adapters
[ 19.268908] airo(): Found an MPI350 card

modprobe does not return from call:
$ sudo modprobe -va airo

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RobbHammack (robbhammack) wrote :

Confirm - same behavior IBM T-40 did dist-upgrade to Hardy last night, now no wireless. dmesg Identical to original report, except pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 instead of pcmcia1.0

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xteejx (xteejx) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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xteejx (xteejx) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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