BT2:Issue loading network drivers at startup!

[alexsys]

Hello all,
I've been running BT2 Final for a while now in a dual boot conf. with Windows.
Everything works fine, apart from that most of the times i need to reboot BT2 a few times, cause it does not load drivers properly ,i think.
In other words, when i run Wlassistant, it says "no device found", and therefore it does not display my AP (actually Wlassistant does not even open).
Even when try and configure it manually with iwconfig, it does not help.
Rebooting BT2 a couple of times solves the prolem!
The weird thing is, that everytime i hear a sound through the speakers at KDE startup, everything works fine.While if i don't hear that sound at startup, i cannot connect to my AP.
Hope you guys can tell me why this is happening and/or know the solution to permanently resolve this issue.
I've already searched through the various threads, but with no luck so far!
Thanks

[elazar]

Could you provide us with some information?
Computer make/model
Wireless card make/model
Output of lspci(and lsusb if you are using a USB wireless card)

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[alexsys]

Could you provide us with some information?
Computer make/model
Wireless card make/model
Output of lspci(and lsusb if you are using a USB wireless card)

E

Hi Elazar, and thanks for replying to my post.
Here are the details you requested. Hope that's enough info.
Computer make: Toshiba /model: Equium A 100/338
PCMCIA Wireless card make/model: Proxim 8470WD Gold
In-Built Wireless card is an Intel Pro/100 3945abg
Output of lspc:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Expr
ess Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Exp
ress Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express In
tegrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Aud
io Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (r
ev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (r
ev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (r
ev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev
02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Control ler (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (re v 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA S torage Controller IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Conne ction (rev 02)
07:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
07:06.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
07:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
07:06.3 Class 0805: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Con troller
07:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Conne ction (rev 02)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC ( rev 01)

Thanks again.

[alexsys]

I can also provide the logs of both when the issue occurs, and when it doesn't, but the file is quite big, so i cannot upload it on this thread.
Unfortunately i cannot make any sense of the logs!
Thanks for your help!

[elazar]

I can also provide the logs of both when the issue occurs, and when it doesn't, but the file is quite big, so i cannot upload it on this thread.
Unfortunately i cannot make any sense of the logs!
Thanks for your help!

Post the output of dmesg | tail right after it happens...

[alexsys]

Post the output of dmesg | tail right after it happens...

Here is the dmesg | tail output after i booted up and could not find networks.

bt ~ # dmesg | tail
Capability LSM initialized
input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input6
NTFS volume version 3.1.
NTFS volume version 3.1.
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0

Interesting thing is that is the same output that i had after a successful start.

Thanks again for the interest.

[elazar]

Tail will only show you the last couple of lines from the kernel messages. I had assumed something was happening after bootup, I guess not. Can you post the entire output of dmesg from both a failed and successful startup...

Elazar