network card problem

2013-01-29 Thread Tom Masterson
Yes I know this is probably not the list for this but it is the best I have at the moment. Over the weekend I did an update on an older dell laptop running 12.04. It has been doing fine with that os until now. After the update when I rebooted it is no longer loading the modules for the

Re: network card problem

2013-01-29 Thread José Vilmar Estácio de Souza
Hi. If memory serves me, I had a similar problem when I used Ubuntu 12.10. Not sure, but I think the problem was caused by lack of installation of header files from the new kernel, which prevented the compilation of modules related to this card. Look for a package named linux-kernel-headers,

Re: network card problem

2013-01-29 Thread B. Henry
Well, if you are missing this it's most likely called either linux-headers, or linux-headers-generic, unless names were changed after natty. I have 0 idea if this is the actual problem, but it is worth looking in to. -- B.H. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 05:01:12PM -0200, José Vilmar

Re: network card problem

2013-01-29 Thread B. Henry
I might have not been clear in my other reply; so, you will probably need both linux-headers and linux-headers-generic with numbers that are in sync with your kernel version. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 05:01:12PM -0200, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote: Hi. If memory serves me, I had a

Re: network card problem

2013-01-29 Thread Tom Masterson
Looks like all the headers are there. For some reason I have yet to figure out bcmwl blacklisted pretty much every broadcom module. Still tryi8ng to figure that one out and of course it kills it for the earlier versions of kernels as well so... I may have to rebuild the box from cd but I

Re: {Spam?} Re: network card problem

2013-01-29 Thread Milton
I thought it was on another list that someone advice to install the following: linux-firmware-nonfree linux-backports-modules-net-{linuxversion} Milton - Original Message - From: José Vilmar Estácio de Souza vil...@informal.com.br To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: