Re: Wireless access suddenly broken
On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> >
> Wireless-tools is 27+28pre10-1. This is the same as in the cache.
>
> libiw27-28pre10-1 - perhaps this is the problem? It does not seem to be
> installed. dpkg -s shows that libiw27 is "purge".
>
> It is present in the cache but running dpkg -i on this did not alter the
> situation; it still appears as purged. libiw-dev is also not there.
>
> According to the log, wireless-tools and libiw were both upgraded on 19
> October. The connection was certainly working after that.
>
> I'm beginning to think about reinstalling, since I have enough spare
> space on the disk so I would not have to delete anything. But it still
> seems like overkill.
>
> Anthony
>
There seems to be a bug in the current version of wireless-tools (?).
I made a fresh install of debian on a spare partition. Everything worked
in the beginning, via netinst. I then did a dist-upgrade to Sid and the
same wireless error appeared.
Anthony
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