Ok. I got my wireless card to detect networks again. I also had a theory and tried to reproduce the problem, and was successful in doing so. Here are my steps to reproduce: 1) Have Vista running and connected to a wireless network 2) Hibernate Vista 3) Boot Parted Magic from a USB drive 4) Start the network in Parted Magic, ask it to use wireless, and then attempt to connect to my normal SSID, which at this point sees the SSID, but cannot connect due to an apparent DHCP lease error 5) Start the network in Parted Magic again, which this time fails with a generic error and does not show any SSID's (starting it a second time is necessary to reproduce the problem) 6) Reboot 7) Resume Vista 8) At this point, Vista loses connectivity to the wireless network 9) Reboot Vista 10) Vista still cannot see any wireless networks 11) Shutdown 12) Remove power cord and battery and wait a bit 13) Boot Vista, and it now works and sees the network
As you just eluded to, it seems that the power-down and battery removal is necessary What do you think is the culprit here? This laptop is a Dell Latitude E6400 On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net> wrote: > On 03/23/2010 02:53 PM, Chris Lopes wrote: >> Thanks for the quick reply. So are you saying that it is impossible >> that the b43 driver could have somehow made my wireless card unable to >> detect any networks after a reboot (in either Windows or Linux)? > > I don't know of any way that b43 could have done that. A power-down including > removal of the battery should completely put the device in the original > condition. > > Larry > _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
