BG2200 wifi card loses WPA abilities in 12.04b2

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None of the package search tools on the web site, nor on my computer, nor the IRC channel, nor Google told me what package the module came from. I'm sorry, I'm new at this, but went through all the instructions and nothing helped got me pointed in the right direction.

Running the apport command crashed the script. Error log attached.

I can try whatever else y'all want.

From a cold boot this morning I got a connect message to my WPA2 network.
Title: Wireless Network Authentication Required
Passwords or encryption keys are required to access the wireless network 'whitedoggies2'.

Options are cancel or connect. Connect is grayed out.

In the network selector are other WPA and WPA2 networks in my neighborhood that are also grayed out.

apport was updated overnight, but I still get a similar crash.

Looks as if the BG2200 is now part of the kernel ... ? My kernel:
3.2.0-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 3 18:32:42 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I also found out several pointers to reporting a kernel bug. Naturally, the section is missing: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage#Kernel

I'm trying here, guys, I swear ...

Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v3.4kernel[1] (Not a kernel in the daily directory). Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag(Only that one tag, please leave the other tags). This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text.

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http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.4-rc2-precise/

I don't have access to the tag editor, in the location it's in the help video here: https://help.launchpad.net/Videos?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=launchpad-in-line-bug-tag-editing.ogv

so needs-upstream-testing tag needs to go
kernel-bug-exists-upstream needs to be added

If indeed it's the kernel at fault.

I booted with the 3.4 kernel: Linux mikelight 3.4.0-030400rc2-generic #201204072235 SMP Sun Apr 8 02:43:03 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Same results, but I don't know that that's changing the actual module itself (if indeed the module is at fault). I also booted with the 11.10's 3.0 kernel, which worked yesterday, and the 11.04's 2.6 kernel, which I'd used for a year.

Also using dpkg -r to remove the 3.4 kernel required an update-grub execution.

Anything else I can check here?

This issue appears to be an upstream bug, since you tested the latest upstream kernel. Would it be possible for you to open an upstream bug report at bugzilla.kernel.org [1]? That will allow the upstream Developers to examine the issue, and may provide a quicker resolution to the bug.

If you are comfortable with opening a bug upstream, It would be great if you can report back the upstream bug number in this bug report. That will allow us to link this bug to the upstream report.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/kernel

Will do. I appreciate all the help.

For what it's worth, WEP networks are not grayed out. However, when I set up my wife's cell phone as a WEP hotspot, I never got a connection and the network manager assumed it was an open connection. When I put in a WEP password, it never got a connection. When I switched the phone back to an open hot spot, it connected within a few seconds.

I don't know what this means, but I thought I should pass it along. =)

@#*& Looks like this may have already been reported under the module name rather than the card name.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43049
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/971628
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/973241

I'm afraid this bug report was a duplicate and I failed to find the duplicates. I am so very very sorry.

OK, dumb question here -- does the patch do anything to address a related problem with WPA? Looks like these bugs are related to software improperly communicating whether the BG2200 can do WEP and WPA.

I couldn't get WEP to work, though, and even with no capabilities reported, network manager was still listing WEP routers as possible connections. It was only WPA/WPA2 routers that were grayed out.

Do I need to open up a bug report on that, or is WEP an assumed connection type?