Michael J McCafferty wrote: > All, > I have been raving about how excellent Ubuntu 8.04 was to use on my > Dell laptop. Upon install it found the wireless, found the AP, connected > and just worked. Windows frequently got confused, Dell added some > additional jun on top of it and it all just never worked very well when > waking up from suspend/hibernate, etc. > Within in the last week, Ubuntu stopped it's excellent wireless > behavior. Now I can't get it to connect to any AP. I have only gotten it > to work once since the moment it became wonky last week. When I > installed Ubuntu on the laptop, I used a new disk drive, and saved the > Windows disk. So, I popped it back in to see if it's the hardware or > not. Windows works fine. It's apparently an Ubuntu-only affliction. > The wireless stopped working after a reboot. There were definitely some > patches that were installed between that reboot and the one previous to > it. > Help ! I need the wireless on this laptop. Thoughts on what/where/how > to troubleshoot ?
There was a kernel upgrade a couple of days ago. To 2.6.24-18-generic on my dell laptop. Mine has an intel mobo with a 3945ABG (as shown by lspci) -- is that what you have? If not, what wireless hardware do you have? On mine lsmod shows a module chain including iwl3945 89844 0 iwlwifi_mac80211 219108 1 iwl3945 cfg80211 15112 1 iwlwifi_mac8021 Module iwl3945.ko and friends are included in the standard kernel -- eg locate iwl3945 reveals: /lib/modules/2.6.24-18-generic/ubuntu/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlwifi/compatible/iwl3945.ko I'm not sure what the compatible means, but that seems to be the module that is loaded. Maybe it comes from a dell (restricted?) repository -- although my "hardware drivers" (gui tool) reports no proprietary drivers in use. I'm not much of an expert on apt-get. :-( If modules seem loaded, perhaps you could post the output of iwconfig I have seen kernel upgrades that fail to update /boot/grub/menu.lst correctly, You might check that that the latest kernel is what the default boot choice is, and that uname -r confirms that's what's running. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
