Here is the problem, I use a Cisco/Linksys AE1200 wireless network adapter to connect my desktop to a public wifi internet connection. I use ndiswrapper to use the windows driver and it had been working fine for me untill I ran the update manager overnight a few days ago. When I woke up it was asking for the normal computer restart to implement the changes but after rebooting the computer, the wireless adapter did not work, the status light on the adapter did not light up even though ubuntu recognizes it is there and according to ndiswrapper the drivers are loaded and the hardware is present.
the grep command is being a bitch for some unknown reason today so this will be long sorry
Output from "lspci":
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 13)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 IDE
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200]
02:02.0 Communication controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Output from "lsusb":
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 13b1:0039 Linksys AE1200 802.11bgn Wireless Adapter [Broadcom BCM43235]
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0053 Microsoft Corp. Optical Mouse
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 1043:8006 iCreate Technologies Corp. Flash Disk 32-256 MB
Output from "ifconfig":
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:21:b6:af:7c
UP BROADCAST 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)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0xb400
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:13232 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13232 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1084624 (1.0 MB) TX bytes:1084624 (1.0 MB)
Output from "iwconfig":
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Output from "lsmod":
Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 12617 1
nls_cp437 12751 1
vfat 17308 1
fat 55605 1 vfat
uas 17828 0
usb_storage 39646 1
nls_utf8 12493 1
udf 84366 1
crc_itu_t 12627 1 udf
snd_ca0106 39279 2
snd_ac97_codec 106082 1 snd_ca0106
ac97_bus 12642 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 80845 2 snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec
rfcomm 38139 0
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_rawmidi 25424 2 snd_ca0106,snd_seq_midi
bnep 17830 2
parport_pc 32114 0
bluetooth 158438 10 rfcomm,bnep
ppdev 12849 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 28931 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14172 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 62064 11 snd_ca0106,
snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_rawj9fe snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 14635 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 14108 2 snd_ca0106,snd_pcm
sp5100_tco 13495 0
i2c_piix4 13093 0
radeon 733693 3
ttm 65344 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 45466 1 radeon
drm 197692 5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 13199 1 radeon
mac_hid 13077 0
shpchp 32325 0
ati_agp 13242 0
lp 17455 0
parport 40930 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
usbhid 41906 0
hid 77367 1 usbhid
8139too 23283 0
8139cp 26759 0
pata_atiixp 12999 1
Output from "sudo lshw -C network":
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 5
bus info: pci@0000:02:05.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:19:21:b6:af:7c
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 10 0bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half latency=64 link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:20 ioport:b400(size=256) memory:ff5fdc00-ff5fdcff
Output from "iwlist scan":
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
Output from "lsb_release -d":
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Output from "uname -mr":
3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
Output from "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart":
* Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may not enable again some interfaces
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... [ OK ]
