2 boots required to get wifi to connect

[RonB]

New to Linux and could not find a similar problem in other posts. Regardless of which wifi I am attempting to connect to I consistently need to shut down the computer after the first boot (because wifi is trying to connect but never does). Immediately, on the second boot I have the desired wifi connection. Please note that if I try to do "restart" rather than "power off" that does not work. I have to "power off" and reboot to get connected. This is getting old.

Thanks!

Here are some details that may help:

Results from entering “inxi N”

Network: Card-1 Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver r8169
Card-2 Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver ath5k


Here are some more:

ronb@ronb-Satellite-A215 ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password for ronb:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"boland"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:B3:11:CF:4C
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=57/70 Signal level=-53 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:1 Invalid misc:106 Missed beacon:0

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:38:13:8e:66
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:43 Base address:0x4000

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:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1920 (1.9 KB) TX bytes:1920 (1.9 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:9e:25:40:a1
inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:9eff:fe25:40a1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5649 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4879 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5158049 (5.1 MB) TX bytes:911116 (911.1 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 216.165.129.158
Address: 216.165.129.158#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.104
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.105
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.110
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.96
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.97
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.98
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.99
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.100
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.101
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.102
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.103

ronb@ronb-Satellite-A215 ~ $

[AlbertP]

Please run this command when wifi is not working and post the output:

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rfkill list

[RonB]

Here is the results of running "rfkill list" when in the first boot sequence and wifi won't/can't connect.

ronb@ronb-Satellite-A215 ~ $ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
ronb@ronb-Satellite-A215 ~ $


Thanks

[AlbertP]

Please run this command and try again:

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sudo sh -c 'echo "options ath5k nohwcrypt" > /etc/modprobe.d/custom-wireless.conf'

[RonB]

Ran the script requested by Albertp. There was no output from that script. Is your command line correct? Here it is anyway.

ronb@ronb-Satellite-A215 ~ $ sudo sh -c 'echo "options ath5k nohwcrypt" > /etc/modprobe.d/custom-wireless.conf'
[sudo] password for ronb:
ronb@ronb-Satellite-A215 ~ $


Thanks

[AlbertP]

Yes, you can just reboot after that. Looks OK.

[RonB]

Wifi still does not connect on first boot.

Thanks

[RonB]

Anyone have any further clues that could lead to a solution??

Thanks