[NBLUG/talk] Disappearing WiFi

Jippen cheetahmorph at gmail.com
Sun Feb 11 16:30:59 PST 2007


Ubuntu updates started breaking too many thing for me, so I went back
to Gentoo. Its gotten much easier to set up over the years, but the
GUI installer and LiveDVD still need some work.

On 2/11/07, Mark Osborne <goldenirma at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Liz et al,
>
> Yes, there is a kernel issue with the latest update. (sort of like
> iTunes...)
>
> I went back a version and was able to reload the connection info
> through the networking screen. Back up and running.
>
> Advise to those running *buntu, hold off on the update until this gets
> sorted....
>
> Best
> Mark
>
>
> --- Liz Young <liz at kandew.com> wrote:
>
> > Mark Osborne wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > Ubuntu Edgy running on a Dell p4 Linksys card and router.
> > > Worked flawlessly for 3 months. Today, system does not recognize a
> > > wireless connection.
> > > Pulled the board, rebooted, and one of the two ethernet connections
> > > drops out of the network. Ok, so it sees the Wireless card as an
> > > ethernet card? now....
> > > Reinstall the card, reboot, and the extra ethernet connection shows
> > up.
> > > Replaced the WiFi card with an identical card, same scenario....
> > >
> > > WiFi works as usual with the Mac.....
> > >
> > > how can I convince linux that the card is indeed wireless?
> > >
> > > thoughts?
> > >
> > > need more info?
> >
> >
> > On my laptop, the wireless card has always been assigned and eth1 or
> > eth2 interface name. I don't think it makes any difference if its
> > eth0
> > or wlan0 or whatever.
> >
> > Are you using network-manager?  If so, the /etc/network/interfaces
> > file
> > must not contain anything (like a section for static IP).
> > Network-manager and static IP's don't mix.
> >
> > What does the iwlist command return?
> >
> > I like to do a "dmesg | grep eth" to see what interface name is
> > assigned
> >    to each device.  Then I'll check with "grep eth(number from dmesg)
> >
> > /var/log/messages" for errors.
> >
> > Hmmm, I was just going to go on about firmware loading, and realized
> > there were some hiccups with the latest kernel updates from *buntu.
> > Maybe you need to update/install the latest restricted-modules
> > package
> > to get the firmware for your card?
> >
> > HTH,
> > Liz
> >
> >
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