Wireless Problems- Ubunto 8.04.1- Clevo M570RU

Hi,

For the life of me I can't get the Intel 4965AGN card working on this new Clevo M570RU laptop. Wired works fine. And the Network manager works flawlessly, detecting that the cable is inserted, getting a DHCP address, etc.

But wireless is another story.

I have 2 access points. One is 802.11b, and has no encryption, I control access through MAC address list running on channel 10. I've entered the MAC address of the Clevo laptop correctly, and the AP works with other laptops. The second AP is an 802.11 b/g/n with WPA and WPA2 encryption, running on channel 1. The passphrase is a string of about 10 ascii characters.

The laptop did connect for a few minutes to the second AP, but doesn't want to connect again.

I'm running kernel 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP, just patched today.

The wireless option shows up in the network manager but it doesn't seem to work.

I'd like to get the GUI network manager to work, because my son isn't a command line guy, and he is the primary laptop user.

I've beat my head against iwconfig, I get no errors, but I don't connect either.

Here is my statement:

sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode managed essid slurp key s:XXXXXXX nick Home chan 1

Here is output of ifconfig command:

sudo ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:f5:66:dc:30
inet addr:192.168.0.213 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::290:f5ff:fe66:dc30/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:20765 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17083 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:23093281 (22.0 MB) TX bytes:2263881 (2.1 MB)
Interrupt:216 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1576 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1576 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:79328 (77.4 KB) TX bytes:79328 (77.4 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:e0:bd:2b:b5
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:e0ff:febd:2bb5/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:13524 (13.2 KB) TX bytes:1380 (1.3 KB)

wlan0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:e0:bd:2b:b5
inet addr:169.254.8.74 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1D-E0-BD-2B-B5-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


Here is output of iwconfig:

sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"slurp" Nickname:"Home"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:14:6C D:0E:C2
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr ff Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:6F6F-7073-6962-7572-7065-64
Power Management ff
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



I can get this out of iwlist:

sudo iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:14:6C D:0E:C2
ESSID:"slurp"
Mode:Master
Channel:1
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=88/100 Signal level=-44 dBm Noise level=-127 dBm
Encryption key n
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=00000001620276c7
Cell 02 - Address: 00:12:0E:82:80:54
ESSID:"07B408688716"
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=51/100 Signal level=-78 dBm Noise level=-127 dBm
Encryption key n
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0000034c945f0425
Cell 03 - Address: 00:02:2D:37:AC:7F
ESSID:"span"
Mode:Master
Channel:10
Frequency:2.457 GHz (Channel 10)
Quality=84/100 Signal level=-50 dBm Noise level=-127 dBm
Encryption key ff
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0000000054fd4c8a

 

Have you even tried looking under Hardware Drivers?

 

What will that do, pray tell?

 

3e0, check out this thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=271869

The steps I would suggest you take are similar to those I suggested there: basically locate the relevant parts of your /var/log/syslog which will allow to diagnose the problem, etc.