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Zedd

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Registered: 2009-09-07

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Update causes networking to disappear

OK, I will first say that I'm still a bit of a newbie, and have probably screwed something up.

I've also been less than regular with my system updating.

I installed Arch on my Dell laptop a couple of months ago; everything was working pretty well. I could connect to both wired and wireless networks (using wicd). My bluetooth mouse also (mostly) worked. Yesterday, I did a pacman -Syu.I can no longer access any form of network (wired or wireless) or any form of bluetooth device. Looking at the log, I downgraded a few packages that I thought may be the cause of the problem, to no avail. I also tried re-installing the wireless driver, which is the only one I installed manually.

Any help would be much appreciated. If you want me to post any more information, please just tell me what you need.

cuervo

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Registered: 2008-04-29

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Re: Update causes networking to disappear

I'm afraid I'm a useless noob, but heres what happened: just got in from work, booted, pac syu'd. Bit later, screen froze ( probably overloading my tiny cpu with too much flash or summat) so had to hard shutdown. When I booted back up wicd couldn't see anything. I cleaned my pkg cache recently so of the packages I just updated I could only downgrade hdparm, so did it. Reboot and wicd fine again. Maybe it would have been ok with a reboot anyway, without the downgrade, but I got things to do so I'm leaving it at the moment.

Zedd

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Registered: 2009-09-07

Posts: 3

Re: Update causes networking to disappear

Tried downgrading hdparm, but no change... Thanks for telling me, though. Admittedly, I can't see why hdparm would stop networks working, but anything's worth a try...

EDIT: It would appear that the package causing the problem is module-init-tools. When I downgrade that package from 3.10-1 to 3.8-1, everything starts working again. Is this a bug, or simply something I'm missing?

Last edited by Zedd (2009-09-08 00:49:47)

m-eick

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Registered: 2009-01-28

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Re: Update causes networking to disappear

I don't know if this helps, but I had a similar problem with wicd some time ago (after I replaced kde-mod with Arch KDE and ran a complete System-upgrade at the same time....). After the update the interfaces eth0 and eth1 had changed (wireless eth1 had become eth0 and vice versa for wired connection). After I corrected this in wicds config everything worked again.

Zedd

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Registered: 2009-09-07

Posts: 3

Re: Update causes networking to disappear

...Hmm. After playing with it a bit more, it doesn't seem to be a problem specific to wicd; iwlist scan tells me the interface doesn't support scanning. As I said before though, the package causing the problem is module-init-tools v.3.10-1; after downgrading back to v.3.8-1, it all works fine. Thanks for the info though, I'll have a look when I go back to playing with it.