On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Ben Hutchings
<ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 23:19 -0400, David Smith wrote:
> Package: linux-image-3.2.0-3-686-pae
> Version: 3.2.21-3
> Architecture: i386
>
> Hardware: 6-year old laptop with Pentium-M CPU and Intel 2200
> wireless.
>
>
> This is a problem that just started happening after I updated to
> Wheezy.
>
> When I boot my PC with the default Debian kernel for Wheezy and the
> ipw2x00 firmware package, I get a message saying my wireless
> killswitch is on. Pressing the "Wifi" button on my laptop and
> rebooting gives the same results. I pressed the "Wifi" button and it
> doesn't light up like it did in "Squeeze" or "Lenny". The button
> stays dark.
>
> When I boot the kernel with ACPI=off, the "Wifi" button immediately
> starts slowly blinking right after grub indicating that the Wifi is on
> and waiting for me to specify a wireless network. When it gets to my
> Desktop, I am easily able to connect to a Wifi network. I've tried
> half a dozen times to get Wifi working without having to use ACPI=off,
> but it just doesn't work anymore unless I use ACPI=off everytime I
> boot.
[...]
Please provide the full boot messages (/var/log/dmesg) from the old and
new kernel versions.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.