Hi, Jim Ham wrote: >> Jim Ham wrote:
>>> The Athros wireless chip is built in on this notebook. All worked well >>> until the last kernel update. Now the athros chip associates during >>> boot, but deassociates later. From dmesg: >>> [ 428.084211] ath0: deauthenticating from 00:16:01:4a:c8:a3 by local >>> choice (reason=3) >> [...] >>> This has a secondary effect in that both top and bottom panels in Gnome >>> don't work as long as there is no internet. If I plug in the hardware >>> port eth0, do an ifdown, then ifup on eth0 the banners start to work >>> after a while. This seems to be a very strange side affect! [...] > This problem went away with a subsequent kernel update. I've > subsequently switched to XFCE4, so don't know about the banner > problem. I stick with Debian Testing, so the kernel has changed many > times since January 2010. > > I still have the Fujitsu Lifebook, but recently updated to a Macbook > Air. The Fujitsu doesn't see much action any more. Thanks, very useful. If you get a chance to try the latest squeeze kernel (it should work fine on a wheezy/sid system) on the machine where this first showed up, that would be interesting. Trying a squeeze kernel on the Macbook Air would also be interesting since we want to make sure it supports all common hardware, but that's separate from this bug. Sincerely, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120715162152.GD747@burratino
