You update the linux-restricted modules? Sometimes this causes the network drivers to tank.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Christoph Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 12:48 -0700, Doug LaRue wrote: >> ** Reply to message from Michael J McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on >> Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:10:04 -0700 >> >> > I should have been more patient. It appears that it was fixed when I >> > declared that it was. It just took a *very* long time to find the AP >> > after the reboot that I thought re-broke it. >> > I hibernated the laptop here at home (WPA w/ TKIP & MAC filtering) and >> > took it to the data center and it found the open AP there and worked >> > fine. >> >> Good to hear your work-around does indeed work. >> >> But it still was a bug so please submit a bug report so someone knows this >> is/was >> and issue and what you did to get around it. It helps everyone when we do >> this. >> >> Please submit a bug report: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy >> >> Doug >> > I have a similar problem that hasn't been resolved yet ... intel 3945 no > longer talking to my Linksys WRT54GX2 after updating from ubuntu 7.10 to > ubuntu 8.04. > > I finally got around to looking at the kismet wireless logs from the > last installfest at That Technical Bookstore that Gus recorded while I > tried to connect. > > It seems to be a very obscure incompatibility: > The wireless access point seems to fuss about the ordering of the > available frequencies, and the latest driver sends the frequencies out > of order: > > intel3945 to cisco: > supported rates: 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54 > extended supported rates: 1 2 5.5 11 > > cisco to intel3945: > denied due to requesting station not supporting all of the datarates in > the BSSBasicServiceSet Parameter (0x0012) > supported rates: 1(B) 2(B) 5.5(B) 11(B) > extended supported rates: 6(B) 9 12(B) 18 24(B) 36 48 54 > > => connection unsuccessful > > > intelGus to cisco: > supported rates: 1(B) 2(B) 5.5(B) 11(B) 6(B) 9 12(B) 18 > extended supported rates: 24(B) 36 48 54 > > cisco to intelGus: > supported rates: 1(B) 2(B) 5.5(B) 11(B) > extended supported rates: 6(B) 9 12(B) 18 24(B) 36 48 54 > > => connection succeeds > > Submitted as bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/242727 > > Christoph > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
