On Friday 29 January 2010 02:47:09 you wrote: > > Hello, any help is much appreciated. Wireless card has worked fine for > >months on a Dell Mini 10v. After updates last night, Squeeze doesn't > > recognize the card. I removed/purged b43-fwcutter and wicd, and > > reinstalled both. Nothing. I pasted some output below, can anyone help? > > > >Thank you!! > >Mark > > > >debian-ro:/home/ro# iwconfig > >lo no wireless extensions. > > > >eth0 no wireless extensions. > > > >pan0 no wireless extensions. > > > >debian-ro:/home/ro# ifconfig > >eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:e8:c5:f7:fc > > inet addr:192.168.1.109 Bcast:192.168.1.255 > > Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::224:e8ff:fec5:f7fc/64 Scope:Link > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:1436 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:1075 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > > RX bytes:1067859 (1.0 MiB) TX bytes:196321 (191.7 KiB) > > Interrupt:27 Base address:0x6000 > > > >lo Link encap:Local Loopback > > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > > RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > > RX bytes:700 (700.0 B) TX bytes:700 (700.0 > > Well hello there. I got a dell studio 1555 myself with a dell wireless 1397 > (broacom 4312 rev1). I got huuuuge problems with this card. As you can see > in this thread I opened in debian-laptop [1] I was using the proprietary > driver provided by the package broadcom-sta-source fetched from non-free > testing. After an upgrade in that package I lost the eth1 interface (which > was the wifi). After kernel 2.6.32 came into testing I thougth of trying > the b43 driver as of this kernel version my card is supported. To tell you > the truth I didn't see better results and I was about to post again. Well > I'll tell you what's my problem with b43 driver (of course I got > b43-fwcutter installed from testing ;) ). When using the b43 driver the > wifi connection will stop working and the interface (named correctly wifi0 > this time) disappeares. When I shutdown or restart I get a fatal error > from the b43 driver and that network manager lost connection with DMA and > device phy0 (which is listed as a process in system monitor. Shall I > suppose phy0 refers to the wifi card??). Well first time I got this I got > paniced. The wifi couldn't be recongnized even under windows. In order to > see the device again I had to remove the battery AND the AC power. Well I > got through this thing many times today morning, but fortunately after > that it stopped and I could work on my laptop. The problem though is not > gone, if i suspend or something there it will be. :) > > Sorry for the long post. I think I should fully explain my problem in order > to get better feedback. In any case I am using testing packages with the > 2.6.32 kernel recently migrated. Thank you all. > > And hope the tip with the AC and battery will be usefull to you Mark :) > > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2010/01/msg00056.html > > J >
Oh I forgot. If you could, please CC me in your responses cause I am subscribed here in digest mode so I won't get the replies immediatelly and unfortunately I may not be able to follow up the discussion. Thanks again. J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org