[SOLVED] - kernel 2.6.34-2 upgrade broke my wireless ...

toad · 2010-06-23 05:37:55

... so I downgraded back to 2.6.33.4-1 along with the headers, got rid of linux-firmware and reinstalled kernel26-firmware.

But it still isn't working.

iwconfig spurts out all the expected info and the card (Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05) is seen, but wicd simply refuses to get an ip address. dmesg tells me that the firmware was requested and geography detected.

I tried restarting the network daemon and it fails

Hm, could it be udev that broke my network? Off to try...

EDIT:
Nope, downgraded to 151-3 but still cannot start the network daemon. dmesg is not telling me anything useful. Where else to check for useful hints?

Last edited by toad (2010-06-23 06:58:21)

ewaller · 2010-06-23 05:48:13

Toad,

What happens if you invoke your dhcp daemon by hand. On my system that would be : dhcpcd wlan0 ??
Which dhcp daemon do you use?

I know this isn't helpful, but I gave up on wicd after going three rounds trying to get it to associate with a WEP protected router with symptoms similar to yours (WPA worked fine -- go figure) Anyway, I went crawling back to networkmanager

toad · 2010-06-23 06:27:36

Thanks ewaller,

I've got dhclient and a sudo dhclient eth1 does nothing, unfortunately.

PS:

Your post made me think...

Since wicd kept on failing with getting an ip address I told it to get a static one - and hey presto, I'm in again. Even upgraded everything again and am still in, so there!?

Last edited by toad (2010-06-23 06:59:40)

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#1 2010-06-23 05:37:55

[SOLVED] - kernel 2.6.34-2 upgrade broke my wireless ...

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