Public bug reported: I'm using hardy alpha 4 (on Linux nand-laptop 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:45:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux ) and I was testing a PCMCIA rt61 card : 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g [1814:0302] the driver seems loaded : wlan1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B 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
but I got the following /var/log/messages : Feb 9 18:50:31 nand-laptop NetworkManager: <debug> [1202579431.311645] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1814_302'). Feb 9 18:50:31 nand-laptop NetworkManager: <debug> [1202579431.326118] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_15_e9_ae_f9_d9'). Feb 9 18:50:31 nand-laptop NetworkManager: <debug> [1202579431.343020] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_15_e9_ae_f9_d9_0'). Feb 9 18:50:31 nand-laptop kernel: [ 5303.377995] phy7 -> rt61pci_enable_radio: Error - Register initialization failed. Feb 9 18:50:33 nand-laptop NetworkManager: <info> wlan1: Device is fully-supported using driver 'rt61pci'. Feb 9 18:50:33 nand-laptop NetworkManager: <info> nm_device_init(): waiting for device's worker thread to start Feb 9 18:50:33 nand-laptop NetworkManager: <info> nm_device_init(): device's worker thread started, continuing. Feb 9 18:50:33 nand-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Now managing wireless (802.11) device 'wlan1'. Feb 9 18:50:33 nand-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Deactivating device wlan1. Feb 9 18:50:33 nand-laptop kernel: [ 5305.498437] phy7 -> rt61pci_enable_radio: Error - Register initialization failed. Feb 9 18:50:35 nand-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan(): could not trigger wireless scan on device wlan1: Network is down Feb 9 18:50:55 nand-laptop kernel: [ 5327.607745] phy7 -> rt61pci_enable_radio: Error - Register initialization failed. Feb 9 18:50:57 nand-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan(): could not trigger wireless scan on device wlan1: Network is down Thus no network are scanned sudo iwlist wlan1 scanning wlan1 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down ** Affects: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [hardy alpha4]rt61 wifi is not working, driver loading pb https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190521 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs