Re: Wireless access suddenly broken
On Friday 28 October 2005 13:44, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Ln 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote:
> > On Friday 28 October 2005 11:37, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > On 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote:
> > > > Iwconfig does not ever read /etc/network/interfaces. /e/n/i is
> > > > effectively a script to configure an interface, iwconfig gets the
> > > > current config from the driver.
> > > >
> > > > The first question is there, what changed - apart from it not
> > > > working. Had you upgraded anything, had you changed any settings on
> > > > the wireless AP? Something must have changed, so we need to find what
> > > > it is.
> > > >
> > > > Have you looked in /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/syslog for any
> > > > messages related to this adapter? If not please do.
> > > >
> > > > What kernel are you running, what wireless card are you using, and in
> > > > the case where there is more than one (i.e. any Prism 2 based card)
> > > > which driver are you using?
> > > >
> > > > David
> > >
> > > I'm using Sid and probably did do an upgrade in the last day or two. I
> > > have not changed any settings myself.
> > >
> > > Dmesg shows:
> > >
> > > MAC enabled eth1 <MAC no. of card>
> > > eth1 index 0x05: Vcc 5.0, Vpp 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013F
> > >
> > > Syslog shows the above two lines, plus:
> > >
> > > executing: '.network start eth1 2>&1'
> > > + Sample private network setup
> > >
> > >
> > > The card is a Cisco Aironet 340
> > >
> > > Kernel 2.6.13-1-686; I also tried 2.6.10-1-686
> >
> > Well one thing that has changed in the last few days is the wireless
> > support libraries. So that might be worth backing out as it might be
> > at odds with the level of Wireless Extensions in the driver you are
> > using.
> >
> > You have still not told us the make of card, or the driver you are
> > using.
> >
> > David
>
> I did say it is a Cisco Aironet 340. The driver is airo_cs.
>
> Which libraries? Wireless-tools? Not sure what to do in that case.
>
> Anthony
>
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There are two things you should looks at. Firstly what version
of libiw (dpkg -l "libiw*") are you running, and secondly
wireless-tools. If they are recent versions and were upgraded
(do you keep your apt-get changelogs?) just before things stopped
working, try reinstalling the next oldest version (look in
/var/cache/apt/archives unless you have run apt-get clean
or autoclean recently in which case you have lost the old versions).
David
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