Re: Wireless access suddenly broken
On 30 Oct 2005, Paul Scott wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> >On 29 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Saturday 29 October 2005 18:48, Paul Scott wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Anthony Campbell wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>I have the same problem on a PowerBook 3400c running sid.
> >>>
> >>>Paul Scott
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Good, now we identified a problem, enter a bug in the Bug Tracking
> >>System. Use reportbug.
> >>
> >>David
> >>
> >I've already done this for wirelss-tools, but I now suspect that this is
> >not the package that is at fault. After I installed the stable version
> >of Debian via netinst everything was working. I tried selective upgrades
> >of wireless-tools and then pcmcia-cs from Sid but these did not break
> >the wireless access. A full dist-upgrade does break it, however.
> >
> >I now have no idea which package is the problem.
> >
> >
> Hopefully either your bug report or this thread will get us closer. I
> don't know what to do next.
>
> Paul
I should also have said that ubuntu-5.10 seems to produce the same
problem.
Anthony
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