Re: Wireless stopped working after kernel upgrade

2009-08-31 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Autumn Lansing wrote: > I've wasted most of my Saturday trying to get wireless to work with > the latest kernel on my 64-bit Sid box. I have an Atheros ar5001x [snip] > sides of the house. Any suggestions on what to try? I'll tell you how my syste

Re: Wireless stopped working after kernel upgrade

2009-08-30 Thread Autumn Lansing
Thanks, Stefan! I checked the file, which states that it is "generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules program, probably run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file," and there is a line for the madwifi ath_pci driver that sets the wireless card to ath0. In addition, there's a line for

Re: Wireless stopped working after kernel upgrade

2009-08-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> As udev insists on renaming wlan0 to ath0, I haven't had to rename the The default udev rules try to remember the name used for network interfaces (they're stored in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules which is automatically filled by some other file I can't find right now). So maybe that

Re: Wireless stopped working after kernel upgrade

2009-08-30 Thread Autumn Lansing
I now have wireless up and working again, though I'm not quite sure how I did it. I was frustrated dealing with the Atheros card, so a few minutes ago I switched it for an Airlink N card, but that was unsuccessful, as the firmware wouldn't load using either the ra2860sta kernel module or ndiswrapp

Re: Wireless stopped working after kernel upgrade

2009-08-29 Thread Autumn Lansing
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:09:20PM -0500, Autumn Lansing wrote: >> I've wasted most of my Saturday trying to get wireless to work with >> the latest kernel on my 64-bit Sid box.  I have an Atheros ar5001x >> card, and I've been using an

Re: Wireless stopped working after kernel upgrade

2009-08-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:09:20PM -0500, Autumn Lansing wrote: > I've wasted most of my Saturday trying to get wireless to work with > the latest kernel on my 64-bit Sid box. I have an Atheros ar5001x > card, and I've been using an older 2.6.22 kernel with madwifi drivers > for the past two