Re: Lenny updates broke Broadcom 4328 wireless
Dne ponedeljek 13 april 2009 ob 10:10:42 je Klistvud napisal(a):
> On a fresh Lenny install I finally made my wireless work (it's a BCM4328
> chip on a HP Compaq 6715b laptop) according to
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=30648&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sta
>rt=0&sid=2782df86cc404fde6d75b631594c3053 As soon as internet connection was
> available (I have no wired access at all) Lenny proposed to download a
> bunch of updates. I allowed it to do that. It was several (tens of)
> megabytes of stuff. Some time after that I rebooted the machine only to
> find wireless wasn't working anymore. Not under the 2.6.26-1, not under the
> newly installed 2.6.26-2 kernel. I followed the above instructions for the
> new kernel too and compiled the wireless driver - to no avail. Now I have
> no connectivity under any of the kernels. Does anybody have a clue as to
> which of the updates might be responsible for that? And will there be a new
> update available any time soon which will fix that?
>
> The funny thing is, iwconfig and iwlist commands can "see" my router, but
> there is still no connection to the internet or to other machines on my
> LAN, and the System/Settings/Network applet states it "doesn't recognize my
> system" and then offers me a list of distros to choose from. I select
> Debian Lenny, but that doesn't change anything: I still can't browse the
> internet or LAN or check for updates.
>
> What gives?
>
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Oops, my bad... After some more rmmodding and insmodding and modprobbing of
the wl, ssb and ieee80211_tckip modules and finallly depmodding -a, the thingy
started working again... at least till next update...
Fingers crossed... ;)
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