Re: wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:04:41 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I press F2 again, and verify that WLAN is indeed enabled -- I seem to
> have done that right.
>
> I boot Debian wheezy, using grub2.
>
> once I log in, there's no wifi.
>
> When I reboot and check the BIOS again, the WLAN device is again
> disabled.
>
> It looks as if somewhere Linux has got the idea that wifi is supposed to
> be off, and upon boot it tells the BIOS to disable the WLAN device. And
> then the network manager thinks I don't have a wifi device and refuses
> to give me any options to turn it on again.
For the record, I also have Windows Xp on this system, and booting
Windows did not shut off wifi in the BIOS.
-- hendrik
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