Re: wireless suddenly stopped
On Mon, Dec 03 2007, at 17:02 -0700, Bob Lounsbury wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've had etch installed on my iBook G3 dual-usb for several months and
> everything has been working perfectly. Except, the other day when I
> booted up my computer wireless didn't work and when I looked in
> Desktop->Administration->Networking my wireless card was listed as
> inactive. So I activated it and pointed it to my wireless network with
> DHCP and everything seemed to work, but it still wouldn't connect or
> find/detect any wireless networks.
Changes done to your system settings before wireless broke?
Did you install new software before wireless stopped working?
*Provided* you didn't install new software or change settings:
This is where I'd check the networking devices: Wireless router,
wireless card etc.
Do you still have some OSX installed? If yes: is wireless working on
that system?
Or do you have some Apple hardware testing DVD for your computer?
What does
grep eth /var/log/messages
say after you tried to connect your computer to the wireless network
(provided your radio card is called something like eth<whatever>) ?
Sometimes even reinstalling some package might help, IIRC ... (?)
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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