On 15 Jan 2006, Tom Allison wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: [snip] > >This may not be relevant, but I've had problems with my Cisco Aironet > >340 which sound similar. I eventually tracked them to hotplug. If you > >have upgraded this recently you could try going back to the version in > >Stable. > > > >Anthony > > > > Similarly, I reset my apt_preferences from unstable to testing. > purged everything related to pcmcia and wireless. > reinstalled pcmcia-cs and wireless tools. > Now it works. > > kernel 2.6.15. > > I'm thinking there might be a big fat hairy bug when whatever is in > unstable gets into testing.... Unfortunately my installation, until > today, was rather spread out between testing and unstable. That's been > remedied as I can no longer afford this to be an unstable branch. I > need it to work. > I would downgrade to stable if I could, but I have a few other packages > that I need in testing, so this is as far as I dare go. >
I'm following unstable myself (and it doesn't seem to be noticeably more hazardous than following testing, which I used to do) and mostly things don't break too badly. However the hotplug gotcha was very difficult to spot and to disentangle from wireless-tools etc. I submitted a bug report on hotplug, naturally, but nothing has come back beyond the formal acknowledgement. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]