The hardware button (hidden on Lenovo T420s), was switched off. Sorry for this guys.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Sun, 18 October 2015, at 7:22 p.m., Mansour Al Akeel >> <mansour.alak...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I haven't updated my system "emerge --sync" in a while (2-3 months). >> Few days ago I did. >> After that I lost my wireless interface. > > I apologise, but I'm extremely dubious of this claim. > > wifi doesn't stop working when you simply update the Portage database - there > is no connection between the two things. > > You updated the Portage database (with `emerge --sync`) *and then did > something else* which caused your wifi to stop working. > > Surely, you updated the Portage database (with `emerge --sync`) and then > installed a bunch of updated packages? > (something like `emerge -u world`) > > I don't mean to sound antagonistic, or like I'm attacking you. I'm sorry if > this email has a negative tone, but what you wrote raises two issues. > > 1. It's easier to help you if we know exactly what you did. > > 2. When you're updating a bunch of packages, you should run `emerge -p` > first. When you've done so, there's a good case for identifying > system-critical packages (such as anything related to wifi, networking and > system init) and emerging them separately (`emerge -1 package`); then you can > deal with the package notices or any problems separately, knowing exactly > what update you're responding to. > > Stroller. > >
