On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Wireless-tools is 27+28pre10-1. This is the same as in the cache. > > libiw27-28pre10-1 - perhaps this is the problem? It does not seem to be > installed. dpkg -s shows that libiw27 is "purge". > > It is present in the cache but running dpkg -i on this did not alter the > situation; it still appears as purged. libiw-dev is also not there. > > According to the log, wireless-tools and libiw were both upgraded on 19 > October. The connection was certainly working after that. > > I'm beginning to think about reinstalling, since I have enough spare > space on the disk so I would not have to delete anything. But it still > seems like overkill. > > Anthony >
There seems to be a bug in the current version of wireless-tools (?). I made a fresh install of debian on a spare partition. Everything worked in the beginning, via netinst. I then did a dist-upgrade to Sid and the same wireless error appeared. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
