Wireless adapter is disabled after resuming from hibernation (not suspend) on Acer 5020 (5021WLMi); BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] chip

Bug #538658 reported by Arto Huotari
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
pm-utils (Ubuntu)
Expired
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: acpi-support

1) release
lsb_release -rd
returns
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

2) Versions

typing
uname -a
on terminal returs

Linux acer5020-laptop 2.6.31-20-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 8 09:05:19 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

$apt-cache policy acpi-support
returns

acpi-support:
  Installed: 0.129
  Candidate: 0.129
  Version table:
 *** 0.129 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy acpid
returns

acpid:
  Installed: 1.0.6-9ubuntu8
  Candidate: 1.0.6-9ubuntu8
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.6-9ubuntu8 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy powermgmt-base
returns

powermgmt-base:
  Installed: 1.30+nmu1
  Candidate: 1.30+nmu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.30+nmu1 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) After resuming from hibernaton I expected the wireless for a light to lit up on the wireless networking button and for the wireless networking to resume by connecting to the wireless router.

4) Light of the wireless button on the computer did not lit up and network-mangager icon reports no connection. Clickin on the icon does not report any wireless network and if I right click the icon the activation selection box for wireless network is grayed out.

It seems that after resuming from hibernation wireless networking is disabled.

lshw -C networking returns

*-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:14:a4:07:ab:a6
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

Wireless network can not be turn on by pressing the wireless network button of the computer and the light on the button remains off.

Outputs for common wireless debugging commands can be found from the attachments. OK on file name indicates before hibernation with functioning networking and fault indicates after resuming from hibernation

suspend is not affected and the computer resumes from suspend with out problems.
---
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: pm-utils 1.3.0-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

Revision history for this message
Arto Huotari (roskapostiaminulle) wrote :
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
affects: acpi-support (Ubuntu) → pm-utils (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
Arto Huotari (roskapostiaminulle) wrote : Dependencies.txt

apport information

tags: added: apport-collected
description: updated
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Arto Huotari (roskapostiaminulle) wrote :

Problem persists in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04. Above apport information was collected after resuming from hibernation using wired network connection. Wireless was unavailable.

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Jeremy Wilkins (jer-wilkins) wrote :

Also effected by this bug in Lucid.
This thread has the solution, at least in my case:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9134074

But what an irritating work around.
Hate to editorialize here, but it has been a rough upgrade. If I weren't willing to engage the forums and bug reports for the odd *.conf or *.yada solution (i.e., if I were most "desktop" users), I'd have given up on this allegedly user-friendly distribution a long time ago.
And switched back to Windows 7.

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Jeremy Wilkins (jer-wilkins) wrote :

Apologies for trollish comment.
Wish there were an edit button.

Additional info:
Using Intel WiFi, and others appear to be using other wireless interfaces, so problem appears not to be bound to any particular hardware configuration.

Revision history for this message
Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote :

Please reply if this is still an issue.

Changed in pm-utils (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
status: Invalid → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for pm-utils (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in pm-utils (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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