Hopping to make life easier for other users I'm attaching the file mentioned on previous comments. This is the result after doing:
alex-mayo...@pavilion-n5495:~$ recode utf8..iso8859-1 agere_sta_fw.bin After adding this file under /lib/firmware WPA became available I believe, but from that point on the card was unable to associate to a WEP network and the following message started to spam dmesg: Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming All this happened to me on 9.04: alex-mayo...@pavilion-n5495:~$ uname -a Linux pavilion-n5495 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux ** Attachment added: "agere_sta_fw.bin" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26376133/agere_sta_fw.bin -- Kernel oops loading Agere firmware (orinoco module) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs