On Tuesday 19 January 2010 19:56:25 John Kapnogiannis wrote: > Hello there. Well I hope this is the correct list to post this. I got a > dell studio 1555 with a dell wireless 1397 (broadcom 4312 rev 01) > wificard. I am using the broadcom driver cause as far as I know there is > no alternative. I installed the driver as descirpted in debian wiki with > module assistant and then modprobing the wl module on every boot. > Everything was working fine until an upgrade a couple of days ago. The > packages broadcom-sta-source andt broadcom-sta-common upgaded from version > 5.10.92.9.3-1 to 5.10.92.9.3-3 (actually the last digit is different which > I thought would fix any supposed bugs existing -although I didn't have > any). After the upgrade I used the module assistant to build the module wl > again with the updated version of the driver. Well everything went just > fine. The problem is that after the first reboot and then I couldn't see > the eth1 network interface which is my wireless. As if the driver is just > not working. I searched a little for a bug report and I didn't find > anything. I currently have switched back to the previous driver version > and everything is normal again. Any ideas why the updated driver doesn't > work for me? > > Thank you :) > > John >
Hi, As a first guess, your inface must be, now, wlan0. You can check that with ifconfig or iwconfig. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
