Strangely, this problem has gone away as mysteriously as it appeared.
I was away from home last w/e, with netbook (which I almost never shut
down, just stays on standby). I opened it up, turned off WiFi, tried to get
online with MB dongle, at which point the whole OS locked up. I gave up and
powered it down, and didn't in fact use it for 2 days until I was back
home. Booted up, and the wireless device was working normally.
On reflection I think it may have been a BIOS screwup. When I tried to
recover by re-booting previously, I didn't actually power down, just did a
sytem restart. The full power-off/on which I was forced into because of it
crashing must have been what fixed it, and is presumably a deeper
initialisation of BIOS, ACPI etc than just a restart.
I think Linux is off the hook!
--
Cheers
Rick
--On Friday, August 21, 2009 10:07:08 -0500 Dan Williams <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 13:38 +0100, Rick Jones wrote:
> I've suddenly started getting strange behaviour with my WiFi device.
> It's appearing twice in the NM applet with different names.
>
> It's actually a RaLink RT2860, but it's additionally being identified
> as Intel 82801G. Looking in the logs both IDs are device ra0, which is
> getting NM a bit confused. Sometime it connects, sometimes it fails
> and hangs. The NM daemon also dies periodically which I suspect is
> related.
Maybe, any chance you can run with --no-daemon in gdb (remember to
'handle SIGCHLD nostop pass' and 'handle SIGTERM nostop pass') and get a
backtrace?
Also, please run 'nm-tool' to get the definitive device list when you
see this happening to ensure that it's not a bug in libnm-glib. I've
seen something like this with mobile broadband adapters in the past few
days that I haven't been able to characterize yet (don't have a reliable
reproducer) so it may actually be libnm-glib's fault.
Dan
> I can't think of any system change that's induced this, it's
> definitely not related to updating NM. I'm running
> 0.7.1.git.5.272c6a626-0ubuntu1~nm1~jaunty from Launchpad, and it's
> been working fine since I installed this version until a few days ago.
> Re-booting doesn't fix it.
>
> I suspect it may be a udev issue, but I don't know where to look. Any
> ideas?
>
> Typical extract of the log file is attached, with everything happening
> twice on ra0.
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