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andante

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Registered: 2010-03-25

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[SOLVED] wireless not working after -Syu upgrade

Hi everyone,

after an upgrade today (though it's been awhile so unfortunately it was a lot of upgrades), Arch doesn't even seem to recognize my wireless card exists anymore. If I type ifconfig, it only shows

eth0 Ethernet ...
lo ...

whereas before eth1 existed as my wireless.

Thanks for any help!

Edit: I should mention that I normally used wicd. I couldn't seem to get the standard network or networkmanager to work either, though, as no wireless device exists.

Last edited by andante (2010-04-17 19:51:37)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless not working after -Syu upgrade

Are you using rt2860 by any chance? If so: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=94929

If not, you'll need to post the details of your card, etc...

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anca

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless not working after -Syu upgrade

I had a similar problem after the kernel upgrade with my Broadcom BCM4312 wireless card (on a Lenovo S10-2 netbook). What worked for me was recompiling and reinstalling the driver in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514, using the little hack suggested in the comments at the AUR package: in the file include/linuxver.h I changed the line

#include <linux/autoconf.h>

to

#include <generated/autoconf.h>

(If you just try to build the package without this change it won't work).

It worked perfectly afterwards (I'm using networkmanager, not wicd, but this shouldn't be a problem).

Of course, the solution depends on your own wireless card, so more details might help.

andante

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Registered: 2010-03-25

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless not working after -Syu upgrade

I'm actually using BCM 4322, so anca I think that just might work. I'll try it as soon as I'm able to get this onto Arch.

Thanks!

jocheem67

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Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless not working after -Syu upgrade

I had the issue with a bcm4312...using the broadcom-wl package. Just a simple

yaourt -R broadcom-wl followed by a yaourt -S broadcom-wl

fixed it.

andante

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Registered: 2010-03-25

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless not working after -Syu upgrade

I ended up applying anca's fix and it worked perfectly.

Thank you very much for your help, everyone!

Оо

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless not working after -Syu upgrade

Works now

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