Re: sudden wireless problem
Hello Thank you for the reply.
----- Original Message -----
> From: Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo@ttmail.com>
> To: Steven Sciame <sasciame@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:~$
>
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