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----- Original Message ----- > From: Volkan YAZICI <yazic...@ttmail.com> > To: Steven Sciame <sasci...@yahoo.com> > Cc: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 7:08 AM > Subject: Re: sudden wireless problem > > What does this output: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > # lspci -vnn | grep BCM4306 > # /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop # Stop nm. > # ifdown wlan0 # For any case. > # ifconfig wlan0 up # Take wlan0 up. > # iwlist wlan0 scan # Scan APs. > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Here is the requested output: steven@debtop:~$ su Password: debtop:/home/steven# lspci -vnn |grep BCM4306 02:06.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03) debtop:/home/steven# ls /etc/init.d/network-manager /etc/init.d/network-manager debtop:/home/steven# /etc/init.d/network-manager stop Stopping network connection manager: NetworkManager. debtop:/home/steven# ifdown wlan0 ifdown: interface wlan0 not configured debtop:/home/steven# ifconfig wlan0 up debtop:/home/steven# iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 No scan results debtop:/home/steven# > > On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:49:38 -0700 (PDT), Steven Sciame writes: >> 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:~$ > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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