Problem resolved... at least for now. I am not sure what exactly was wrong, but:
1) I commented out the entry in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules for wlan0 2) Then rebooted, and the system added wlan1. I didn't expect that. I expected it to add a wlan0 back in there since there was no wlan0, or rather it was commented out. 3) I removed that wlan1 entry and uncommented the wlan0 entry that was the original and rebooted. It worked ! WTF !?!?!? On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 12:50 -0700, Tyrion wrote: > 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 ? > > > > Thanks, > > Mike > > > > > > More info. What card? What drivers are you using for it? What changed > between reboot? Did you install a new kernel? I've had two kernel > updates for ubuntu 8 in the last week so I'm thinking the -18 kernel > must have had some issues, maybe that's it? try going back to an > earliler kernel that you know was working. > > Help can be a bit difficult to find on the ubuntu sites as the info > tends to be a bit old, but I've had some of these issues recently and > will offer any help I can give. > > Tyrion > > -- ************************************************************ Michael J. McCafferty Principal, Security Engineer M5 Hosting http://www.m5hosting.com You can have your own custom Dedicated Server up and running today ! RedHat Enterprise, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and more ************************************************************ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
