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 system

Re: Wireless stopped working after kernel upgrade

2009-08-30 Thread Autumn Lansing
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Osamu Aokios...@debian.org 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

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

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
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

Wireless stopped working after kernel upgrade

2009-08-29 Thread Autumn Lansing
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 years. I'm rather conservative in upgrading my kernel, precisely because of

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