[kwlug disc.] Networking problems

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Careful ...

I had a wireless PCMCIA card with an Intersil ISL3880 chipset. It worked
fine with Ubuntu 6.06 Edgy.

When I upgraded to Feisty, it stopped working. I found that others have the
same problem.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/105357

Since then, the laptop died (power circuitry), and I bought a new one to
replace it.

I had a modem work fine on Edgy, and broke down in Feisty too (and I only
realized
it when I was traveling and needed dialup).

So, morale of the story: do not assume newer kernels will not break things.

I hate this "development happens on 2.6, no more odd/even unstable/stable
isolation".

On Dec 5, 2007 1:32 PM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca> wrote:

> What happens when you run a kubuntu live cd?
>
> Can you get the adapter into a reasonably recent laptop long enough to
>  dis/prove it's healthy?
>
> Have you another adapter you can try?
>
> Can you ping another local computer?
>
> Adam Glauser wrote, On 12/05/2007 8:45 AM:
> > unsolicited wrote:
> >
> >>>> Do you have anything else on your local network, such as your
> gateway,
> >>>> that you can try pinging to?
> >>> I did.  Should have been more specific about that, sorry.
> >>>
> >>
> >> OK, then this is a routing issue not a hardware issue.
> >>
> > Sorry, again I wasn't clear.  I tried pinging the local router, but all
> > packets get dropped.  FWIW, the little light on the NIC doesn't blink
> > like I expect it to, but I never trust those lights very far.
> >
> >
> >> Do you happen to have a usb network adapter around? Can you throw it
> >> on just to see if you do get connectivity? Even 1.1 should do you fine
> >> for the internet.
> >
> > This is actually such an old laptop that there is no USB.  Good
> > suggestion though.
> >
> >> You're not trying to use a cardbus pcmcia card in a non-cardbus pcmcia
> >> slot are you? Or ... I forget if you need both cardbus and pcmia stuff
> >> loaded, or if pcmcia now just comes cardbus, and supports non-cardbus
> >> just for legacy's sake.
> >
> > I have absolutely no idea.  I've had trouble finding documentation for
> > this laptop in the past - is there some way to tell cardbus from
> > non-cardbus by visual inspection?
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