Re: wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

2013-06-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 iun 13, 01:11:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Well, I've got it using wifi again yesterday, but now I need to know what > the right way to get it to rescan for access points. ... > I'm understandably leery of disabling wifi and renabling it, given the > disappearance of the menu item. I

Re: wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

2013-06-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:05:52 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:59:35 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Lu, 10 iun 13, 04:04:41, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> >>> I think -- maybe I should ask it to shut down wifi altogether (using >>> the network manager's menu, and then ask it to

Re: wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

2013-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:59:35 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 10 iun 13, 04:04:41, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> 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. > > Yes, it wi

Re: wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

2013-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:45:25 +, xavi wrote: > I have the same problem. And I resolved it installing wicd. Never trust > in network manager :) Thanks. Maybe I will. But in the meantime I managed to get it up again using rfkill, so I have a chance to think a bit more before acting. -- hendr

Re: wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

2013-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:04:41 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > 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

Re: wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

2013-06-10 Thread xavi
I have the same problem. And I resolved it installing wicd. Never trust in network manager :) Il 10.06.2013 06:59 Andrei POPESCU ha scritto: On Lu, 10 iun 13, 04:04:41, Hendrik Boom wrote: I think -- maybe I should ask it to shut down wifi altogether (using the network manager's menu, and th

Re: wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

2013-06-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 10 iun 13, 04:04:41, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > 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. Yes, it will. > But instead, after turning it off, the item has vanished fr

wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

2013-06-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
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 wit