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Mgccl

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Registered: 2010-03-30

Posts: 5

Wireless suddenly stopped working

After last upgrade, the wireless stopped working. I'm using broadcom-wl.
I recompiled broadcom-wl with the new kernel it still doesn't work.

I read the log, and found the following

Jan 31 20:34:45 hplaptop NetworkManager[3255]: <error> [1296524085.705543] [nm-device-wifi.c:3097] real_update_permanent_hw_address(): (eth0): unable to read permanent MAC address (error 0)
Jan 31 20:34:45 hplaptop NetworkManager[3255]: <info> (eth0): driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
Jan 31 20:34:45 hplaptop NetworkManager[3255]: <info> (eth0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'wl' ifindex: 2)
Jan 31 20:34:45 hplaptop NetworkManager[3255]: <info> (eth0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
Jan 31 20:34:45 hplaptop NetworkManager[3255]: <info> (eth0): now managed
Jan 31 20:34:45 hplaptop NetworkManager[3255]: <info> (eth0): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2)
Jan 31 20:34:45 hplaptop NetworkManager[3255]: <info> (eth0): bringing up device.
Jan 31 20:34:45 hplaptop NetworkManager[3255]: <info> (eth0): preparing device.
Jan 31 20:34:45 hplaptop NetworkManager[3255]: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason: 2).

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: Wireless suddenly stopped working

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=112206

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