Greetings, Last night my wireless suddenly stopped working. The only thing I did differently from any other night that I can think of is close the lid while the computer was trying to Hibernate. Ten minutes later I realized I needed to send one more email so I tried to wake the computer up and suddenly my wireless wasn't working. On the network manager no wireless networks were displayed (I live in a highrise and there are usually many listed so I know that it is not just a problem with my wireless router which was the first thing that I thought).
I am using a Compaq Presario 2210us. I right clicked on the network manager, unchecked the enable wireless, then rechecked. The led on my network card would respond (turn off, then back on), but that didn't help. I then did the same thing with enable networking. I then did: ifconfig wlan0 down, then back up again. I even tried to reinstall b43 from http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx but that did not seem to fix anything. A few months ago I needed to make a Vanilla kernel (2.6.38) for another issue that has since been fixed so I don't use it anymore (I now use the one that is with Squeeze 2.6.32). I decided to select that 2.6.38 upon startup just to see if that would help and something interesting happened: When clicking on the network manager the, "Enable wireless" was greyed out. Here is some output after restarting again this morning with the 2.6.32 Squeeze kernel: steven@debtop:~$ dmesg | tail -25 [ 9.533637] loop: module loaded [ 11.556603] fuse init (API version 7.13) [ 12.845751] input: ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device as /devices/virtual/input/input7 [ 14.557229] eth0: link down [ 14.557323] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 14.584065] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw [ 14.618394] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw [ 14.626731] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw [ 14.636424] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw [ 14.772058] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10) [ 14.828984] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 16.518143] apm: BIOS not found. [ 18.273121] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15 [ 18.273211] NET: Registered protocol family 31 [ 18.273214] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 18.273218] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 18.809841] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.14 [ 18.809846] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 19.229135] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 19.229141] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 19.740665] Bridge firewalling registered [ 19.903792] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6 [ 19.903797] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 20.454349] lp: driver loaded but no devices found [ 20.483194] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver steven@debtop:~$ su Password: debtop:/home/steven# ifconfig wlan0 down debtop:/home/steven# ifconfig wlan0 up debtop:/home/steven# lsmod | grep b43 b43 132411 0 mac80211 122866 1 b43 cfg80211 86977 2 b43,mac80211 led_class 1757 1 b43 rng_core 2178 1 b43 ssb 33578 1 b43 mmc_core 38277 2 b43,ssb pcmcia 16194 2 b43,ssb pcmcia_core 20414 5 b43,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic,ssb,pcmcia debtop:/home/steven# exit steven@debtop:~$ lspci | grep -i wireless 02:06.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) steven@debtop:~$ Any help would be much appreciated. Sincerely, Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1312112978.65826.yahoomail...@web111713.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
