First, thank you for the reply. Second, I've installed the windows
driver with ndiswrapper so the adaptor is working now, but I wouldn't
mind knowing exactly what went wrong.
Meanwhile, no it doesn't entirely make sense that the new link would
have caused the failure, but the only other possibilities (that I can
think of) are that something else in that day's update caused the
problem, or that I did something in the course of installing/trying to
figure out Samba--which was really the only thing I think I did on that
machine during that uptime. I'm sure I didn't manually open
/lib/firmware at any time.
In any case, I thought it could possibly be helpful to someone else to
have the event on record.
As to the exact effect on the adaptor: It was working normally,
connecting automatically at log in, until the failure which came at the
first reboot after the update. At that point the wireless indicator on
the panel would pulse as if trying to find the signal, and then
eventually give up.
Just for fun I'm going to uninstall ndiswrapper and see what happens
when I disable the pointer. If I figure out anything stronger than a
hypothesis, I'll post it here.
The usb ID is 7392:7811.
Thanks again for your time. No need to reply on my behalf. From here
it's just me learning something new.
-z
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