Re: no connections tab in network admin
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> My son runs Debian (Squeeze) on a relatively ancient Gateway Laptop - and
> all was copacetic until he did a recent apt-get update/upgrade/autoremove.
>
> Suddenly:
> - wireless isn't working
> - the network-admin tool does not show a "connections" tab
> - iwconfig shows "no wireless extensions"
>
> Any suggestions on where to start?
If this breakage happened this past Friday, and your son has
squeeze-updates enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, the issue may be
caused by the new kernel that was pushed out. Did wi-fi work out of
the box previously or are you using ndiswrapper?
--
Chris
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