On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 19:37 -0500, macarthur wrote: > Package: firmware-iwlwifi > Version: 0.27 > Severity: important > > After losing the wireless connection for whatever reason, i'm unable to > reconnect to it and actually acess the internet. It reconnects to the router by > all traffict just dies and it's unable to do anything. trying a ping google.com > -c 4 reports that the host is unknown even though i'm supposedly connected to > the network. How do you determine that there is a connection to the wireless network? > This issue has been in it since a couple months back but it's just now that i'm > able to say with certainty that it's the package that is the problem. It's > either that or whatever package tells the OS to start routing through my > wireless adapter isn't doing its job. Since ethernet connections still work > just fine. What are you using to configure the wireless network connection? ifupdown, wicd, Network Manager? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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