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Re: wireless card no longer appears after dist-upgrade



Colin Cotter wrote:
> ...
> Its there already:
> 
> # PCI device 8086:4220 (ipw2200)
> ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", SYSFS{address}=="00:12:f0:2e:4c:14",
> NAME="eth1"
> 
> This suggests that the system can't find the device with the new kernel?
> 
> --Colin

Yes, this may be. Take a look at the output of dmesg or /var/log/dmesg
if something goes wrong with the initialization of the WLAN-card.
Since it uses the ipw2200 driver it needs a firmware with a version matching
the kernel driver version.

Regards,
Jörg-Volker.




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