RE: wlan0 disappeared in Squeeze on Dell Mini 10v
> Hello, any help is much appreciated. Wireless card has worked fine for
>months on a Dell Mini 10v. After updates last night, Squeeze doesn't
> recognize the card. I removed/purged b43-fwcutter and wicd, and reinstalled
>both. Nothing. I pasted some output below, can anyone help?
>
>Thank you!!
>Mark
>
>debian-ro:/home/ro# iwconfig
>lo no wireless extensions.
>
>eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
>pan0 no wireless extensions.
>
>debian-ro:/home/ro# ifconfig
>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:e8:c5:f7:fc
> inet addr:192.168.1.109 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::224:e8ff:fec5:f7fc/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:1436 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:1075 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:1067859 (1.0 MiB) TX bytes:196321 (191.7 KiB)
> Interrupt:27 Base address:0x6000
>
>lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:700 (700.0 B) TX bytes:700 (700.0
Well hello there. I got a dell studio 1555 myself with a dell wireless 1397
(broacom 4312 rev1). I got huuuuge problems with this card. As you can see in
this thread I opened in debian-laptop [1] I was using the proprietary driver
provided by the package broadcom-sta-source fetched from non-free testing.
After an upgrade in that package I lost the eth1 interface (which was the
wifi). After kernel 2.6.32 came into testing I thougth of trying the b43 driver
as of this kernel version my card is supported. To tell you the truth I didn't
see better results and I was about to post again. Well I'll tell you what's my
problem with b43 driver (of course I got b43-fwcutter installed from testing
;) ). When using the b43 driver the wifi connection will stop working and the
interface (named correctly wifi0 this time) disappeares. When I shutdown or
restart I get a fatal error from the b43 driver and that network manager lost
connection with DMA and device phy0 (which is listed as a process in system
monitor. Shall I suppose phy0 refers to the wifi card??). Well first time I got
this I got paniced. The wifi couldn't be recongnized even under windows. In
order to see the device again I had to remove the battery AND the AC power.
Well I got through this thing many times today morning, but fortunately after
that it stopped and I could work on my laptop. The problem though is not gone,
if i suspend or something there it will be. :)
Sorry for the long post. I think I should fully explain my problem in order to
get better feedback. In any case I am using testing packages with the 2.6.32
kernel recently migrated. Thank you all.
And hope the tip with the AC and battery will be usefull to you Mark :)
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2010/01/msg00056.html
J
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