Now the wifi access point at home is a bit flaky. Every now and then we have to reset it.
I run jessie on my laptop, and upgrade it every few days, so it's reasonably up-to-date. The laptop is an ASUS 1000H (or HE? I forget) -- the first of the EEEPC's that was completely Linux-compatible without the use of proprietary drivers. So when I came home tonight, wifi appeared to be down, and "4133" (my SSID) was not in the list of SSIDs my laptop said was up. I reset the wifi access point. 4133 did not appear. I wished I knew how to get the network manager (that's the component that manages the wifi connection in XFCE, right?) to rescan and look for wifi access points again. It has no trouble finding ny neighbour's access points, but not mine. I verify that the wifi access point is indeed up by accessing it with an Android tablet. I think -- maybe I should ask it to shut down wifi altogether (using the network manager's menu, and then ask it to turn it on again. Maybe then it will rescan. But instead, after turning it off, the item has vanished from the menu, and I can find no way to get it back. OK. Or rather, KO. Evidently something has got into a state. I shut them machine down -- complete power down and reboot. Upon logging in, no wifi -- no wifi at all, not even the usual list of locked SSIDs I could try in vain to connect to. I reboot again, holding F2 to get to the BIOS. Indeed, the WLAN device is disabled. I enable ig, use F10 to save and quit. It gets me back to the splash page that invites me to press F2 to configure the BIOS. I press F2 again, and verify that WLAN is indeed enabled -- I seem to have done that right. I boot Debian wheezy, using grub2. once I log in, there's no wifi. When I reboot and check the BIOS again, the WLAN device is again disabled. It looks as if somewhere Linux has got the idea that wifi is supposed to be off, and upon boot it tells the BIOS to disable the WLAN device. And then the network manager thinks I don't have a wifi device and refuses to give me any options to turn it on again. How do I get out of this mess? Presumably there's some configuration file I can edit.... Meanwhile, the other wifi devices in the house are still working just fine. -- hendrik P.S. Something like this happened to me last summer when I was still running wheezy/testing, and editing thBIOS configuration was all I needed to get things working again. It did seem that the network manager shut off wifi in the BIOS to so stop wifi. But last summer turning it on in the BIOS was enough to get it back. It's almost as if the network manager has remembered my request to turn off wifi and, upon reboot, turns of the BIOS again, thereupon refusing to believe there's a wifi device. -- 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/kp3j8n$jv3$1...@ger.gmane.org
