I opened up my laptop and removed the internal wireless card, eth1. wpa_supplicant no longer pestering me. Its an Orinoco card from 2002. Its 802.11b only WEP encryption (loosely termed). If I could get it to work with the card in it, I'd be happy, but no wireless is not an immediate show stopper. Eric On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Eric Cope wrote: > More details. If I boot without an active network, wpa_supplicant stays > dormant and the system is stable for at least 8 hours. If I boot with one > active network, eth0 is my internal 10/100 card, eth1 is my wireless card > that I don't want active, eth2 is a pcmcia 10/100/1000 card. If eth0 or eth2 > are active, wpa_supplicant consumes ~7-8% of the cpu until events/0 erupts > to 80% of the cpu. This makes no sense to me since I don't need (at least I > thought) wpa_supplicant for either wired connections. How do I disable eth1 > in Ubuntu 10.04? I google it, but google's responses seem to be dated for > 9.x or earlier. Here are some log entries from various log files. > > Here are some log entries from daemon.log. Its about 3.4MB of this > Aug 18 23:00:09 selenium-rc wpa_supplicant[645]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - > Disconnect event - remove keys > Aug 18 23:00:10 selenium-rc wpa_supplicant[645]: No network configuration > found for the current AP > Aug 18 23:00:10 selenium-rc wpa_supplicant[645]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - > Disconnect event - remove keys > Aug 18 23:00:10 selenium-rc wpa_supplicant[645]: No network configuration > found for the current AP > Aug 18 23:00:10 selenium-rc wpa_supplicant[645]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - > Disconnect event - remove keys > Aug 18 23:00:11 selenium-rc wpa_supplicant[645]: No network configuration > found for the current AP > > /var/log/debug has 3.9MB of this > Aug 17 18:59:21 selenium-rc kernel: [ 1813.644710] eth1: New link status: > Connected (0001) > Aug 17 18:59:21 selenium-rc kernel: [ 1813.659202] eth1: New link status: > Disconnected (0002) > Aug 17 18:59:22 selenium-rc kernel: [ 1814.077904] eth1: New link status: > Connected (0001) > Aug 17 18:59:22 selenium-rc kernel: [ 1814.092465] eth1: New link status: > Disconnected (0002) > Aug 17 18:59:22 selenium-rc kernel: [ 1814.666349] eth1: New link status: > Connected (0001) > > kern.log has 4.6MB of this: > > Aug 18 23:01:59 selenium-rc kernel: [ 344.839603] eth1: New link status: > Disconnected (0002) > Aug 18 23:02:00 selenium-rc kernel: [ 345.528158] eth1: New link status: > Association Failed (0006) > Aug 18 23:02:00 selenium-rc kernel: [ 345.532784] eth1: New link status: > Disconnected (0002) > Aug 18 23:02:01 selenium-rc kernel: [ 346.148602] eth1: New link status: > Association Failed (0006) > > syslog has 9 MB of this: > > Aug 18 23:02:03 selenium-rc wpa_supplicant[645]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - > Disconnect event - remove keys > Aug 18 23:02:04 selenium-rc wpa_supplicant[645]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - > Disconnect event - remove keys > Aug 18 23:02:04 selenium-rc kernel: [ 349.234096] eth1: New link status: > Association Failed (0006) > Aug 18 23:02:04 selenium-rc kernel: [ 349.234819] eth1: New link status: > Disconnected (0002) > Aug 18 23:02:04 selenium-rc wpa_supplicant[645]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - > Disconnect event - remove keys > Aug 18 23:02:04 selenium-rc wpa_supplicant[645]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - > Disconnect event - remove keys > Aug 18 23:02:04 selenium-rc kernel: [ 349.863346] eth1: New link status: > Association Failed (0006) > Aug 18 23:02:04 selenium-rc kernel: [ 349.868011] eth1: New link status: > Disconnected (0002) > Aug 18 23:02:04 selenium-rc wpa_supplicant[645]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - > Disconnect event - remove keys > Aug 18 23:02:08 selenium-rc wpa_supplicant[645]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - > Disconnect event - remove keys > Aug 18 23:02:08 selenium-rc kernel: [ 353.312185] eth1: New link status: > Association Failed (0006) > Aug 18 23:02:08 selenium-rc kernel: [ 353.316797] eth1: New link status: > Disconnected (0002) > Aug 18 23:02:08 selenium-rc wpa_supplicant[645]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - > Disconnect event - remove keys > > Thanks, > Eric > > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Eric Cope wrote: > >> I installed 10.04. I have two network interfaces, eth0 is my laptop's >> 10/100 port. eth1 is my laptop's 802.11b wireless port. This makes replacing >> the network cards more difficult, especially since the laptop is older and >> not worth finding a replacement network card. I decided to take my laptop to >> my day job to debug while my day job's work was simulating. I did not plug >> my laptop into the network, which is why I unplugged eth0 (not to try and >> fix eth1). >> >> Thanks again, >> Eric >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: >> >>> I would hate to see you back out two years worth of advances in ubuntu. >>> I don't think that you ever said which version you just installed, but >>> assuming it was 10.04 or even a 10.10 alpha release, I might be tempted to >>> try 9.10 which was a very good release. On another note, 10.04.1 was >>> released which is the pre-planned patch release for the 10.04 LTS (Long Term >>> Support) and it fixes some things so you could even try that although if you >>> have 10.04 installed you only need to get the updates to be on 10.04.1. >>> >>> Hmmm, just noticed that you said unplugging eth0 (ZERO, not ONE) fixes >>> the problem. Does that mean you have two network cards? Perhaps you are >>> seeing a conflict of some sort. Why did you choose to unplug eth0 instead >>> of eth1 which you were getting the messages for? >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Eric Cope wrote: >>> >>>> When I unplugged the network cable, eth0, dmesg stays clean. >>>> I'll investigate more later today. As a historical note, I ran Ubuntu >>>> 8.10 (I think) for months on this machine. Perhaps I should roll my install >>>> back. >>>> >>>> Eric >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Stephen wrote: >>>> >>>>> All the weird networking i have run into in Ubuntu has been because of >>>>> Network manager. It tends to fight with any "conventional" >>>>> configuration of the network. >>>>> >>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetworkManager >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Dazed_75 >>>>> wrote: >>>>> > Doing a Google search on "eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)" >>>>> yields >>>>> > about 58,000 results. I looked through a few but did not find a >>>>> solution. >>>>> > >>>>> > I did find one user who said it was frustrating because he did not >>>>> have the >>>>> > problem with the previous version of ubuntu (he did not say which >>>>> one). >>>>> > Since yours was a new installation, you might want to try an older >>>>> ubuntu >>>>> > first just to try eliminating hardware as the cause. Let me know if >>>>> you >>>>> > need a CD for that. >>>>> > >>>>> > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Stephen >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >> >>>>> >> This looks like network manager is on play check itsconfig or turn >>>>> it off >>>>> >> >>>>> >> On Aug 17, 2010 11:17 PM, "Eric Cope" wrote: >>>>> >> >>>>> >> I looked in dmesg... I get : >>>>> >> >>>>> >> [4951.040817] eth1: New link status: Connected (0001) >>>>> >> [4952.436157] eth1: New link status: Connected (0001) >>>>> >> >>>>> >> I tried "sudo ifdown eth1" ... I get interface eth1 not configured. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Any ideas? >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Thanks, >>>>> >> Eric >>>>> >> >>>>> >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Eric Cope >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > I tried both acpi=off... >>>>> >> >>>>> >> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>>> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >> >>>>> >> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>>> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > -- >>>>> > Dazed_75 a.k.a. 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