Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Oct 2005, Paul Scott wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > >On 29 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > > > > > >>On Saturday 29 October 2005 18:48, Paul Scott wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Anthony Campbell wrote: > >>> > >>> > On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > There see

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-30 Thread Paul Scott
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 29 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: On Saturday 29 October 2005 18:48, Paul Scott wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: There seems to be a bug in the current version of wireless-tools (?). I made a fresh install of

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > On Saturday 29 October 2005 18:48, Paul Scott wrote: > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > >On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > >There seems to be a bug in the current version of wireless-tools (?). > > >I made a fresh install of debian on a spare p

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-29 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 29 October 2005 18:48, Paul Scott wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > >On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > >There seems to be a bug in the current version of wireless-tools (?). > >I made a fresh install of debian on a spare partition. Everything worked > >in the beginning, via

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-29 Thread Paul Scott
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: There seems to be a bug in the current version of wireless-tools (?). I made a fresh install of debian on a spare partition. Everything worked in the beginning, via netinst. I then did a dist-upgrade to Sid and the same wireless er

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Wireless-tools is 27+28pre10-1. This is the same as in the cache. > > libiw27-28pre10-1 - perhaps this is the problem? It does not seem to be > installed. dpkg -s shows that libiw27 is "purge". > > It is present in the cache but running dpkg -i on t

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > On Friday 28 October 2005 13:44, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Ln 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > > > On Friday 28 October 2005 11:37, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > On 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > > > > > Iwconfig does not ever read /etc/ne

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 28 October 2005 13:44, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Ln 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > > On Friday 28 October 2005 11:37, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > > > > Iwconfig does not ever read /etc/network/interfaces. /e/n/i is > > > > effectively a

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
Ln 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > On Friday 28 October 2005 11:37, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > > > Iwconfig does not ever read /etc/network/interfaces. /e/n/i is > > > effectively a script to configure an interface, iwconfig gets the current > > >

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 28 October 2005 11:37, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > > Iwconfig does not ever read /etc/network/interfaces. /e/n/i is > > effectively a script to configure an interface, iwconfig gets the current > > config from the driver. > > > > The first question

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > Iwconfig does not ever read /etc/network/interfaces. /e/n/i is effectively > a script to configure an interface, iwconfig gets the current config from > the driver. > > The first question is there, what changed - apart from it not working. Had > you upg

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-28 Thread David Goodenough
Iwconfig does not ever read /etc/network/interfaces. /e/n/i is effectively a script to configure an interface, iwconfig gets the current config from the driver. The first question is there, what changed - apart from it not working. Had you upgraded anything, had you changed any settings on the