On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > My son runs Debian (Squeeze) on a relatively ancient Gateway Laptop - and > all was copacetic until he did a recent apt-get update/upgrade/autoremove. > > Suddenly: > - wireless isn't working > - the network-admin tool does not show a "connections" tab > - iwconfig shows "no wireless extensions" > > Any suggestions on where to start?
If this breakage happened this past Friday, and your son has squeeze-updates enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, the issue may be caused by the new kernel that was pushed out. Did wi-fi work out of the box previously or are you using ndiswrapper? -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOEVnYuz0C=p=_HFBRuOnbTEjXzarnYs6OFvHjUDy3gZf0F7=g...@mail.gmail.com
