Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: network-manager
I have a HP 530 Laptop, and earlier today my wireless card just stopped
working in Ubuntu 8.10 and the 'Enable Wireless' option from right
clicking the network connection area in the panel became grayed out.
Clicking the wireless button on my laptop (which normally correctly
enables/disables the wireless) would not work at this stage.
Because it seemed like this might be a hardware fault I booted into a
copy of the Ubuntu 8.10 LiveCD (which I am fairly certain worked with
this laptop) and the wireless card still didn't work. At this stage I
strongly suspected a hardware fault.
So I then booted into the Vista installation software partition also on
this laptop (as I figured the service technitions would probably want me
to check if it worked in Vista). During the boot up processes of the
vista installation software I noticed that the wireless light was now
glowing, so I quit the installation before the EULA and rebooted into my
normal partition where the wireless now worked.
So basically the bug is that some weird quirk killed my network card and
Ubuntu didn't seem to be able to do anything about it, but the vista
installation pre-setup did fixed the problem, so maybe Ubuntu should be
doing that :)
I've reported this problem using ubuntu-bug so hopefully enough useful
files should be attached, but please let me know if any other
information might be useful.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
Package: network-manager 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1.8.10.1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/mingw32ce/bin:/usr/local/netpbm/bin
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686
** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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Wireless Card crashed and couldn't be fixed in Ubuntu (reboot into vista fixed
it)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308855
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