Comment 11 for bug 34998

Hello,

First of all: Mr. Matt Zimmerman, can this bug be activated again instead of listed as rejected? As you can see, others are having this same problem.

Bug confirmed on a Thinkpad X31. This has been happening since around Dapper release and now in Edgy. I do not know with what kernel this started to happen.

It appears that I suffer from exactly the same bug as Mr. Gilbert Ramirez with the same, or similar, card.

$ uname -a
Linux x31 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Fri Oct 6 00:36:14 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

$ lspci
02:02.0 Network controller: AIRONET Wireless Communications Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b

Network is not detected upon boot. However, it only happens once in a while (maybe around 1 in 5 bootups). dmesg during bootup:
[17179602.580000] airo(): Probing for PCI adapters
[17179602.580000] airo(eth1): Found an MPI350 card
[17179603.612000] airo(eth1): Couldn't register_netdev
[17179603.916000] airo(): Finished probing for PCI adapters

To fix this, I do:
sudo /etc/init.d/network stop
sudo rmmod airo
sudo modprobe airo

dmesg after the fix above:
[17179771.984000] airo(): Probing for PCI adapters
[17179771.988000] airo(eth0): Found an MPI350 card
[17179772.948000] airo(eth0): MAC enabled 0:2:8a:78:41:dc
[17179772.948000] airo(): Finished probing for PCI adapters

My /etc/network/interfaces:
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet static
address *****
netmask *****
gateway *****
wireless-essid *****
wireless-key *****

auto lo
auto eth0