Re: Phantom wireless device

2009-08-24 Thread Rick Jones
Strangely, this problem has gone away as mysteriously as it appeared. I was away from home last w/e, with netbook (which I almost never shut down, just stays on standby). I opened it up, turned off WiFi, tried to get online with MB dongle, at which point the whole OS locked up. I gave up and p

Re: Phantom wireless device

2009-08-21 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 13:38 +0100, Rick Jones wrote: > I've suddenly started getting strange behaviour with my WiFi device. > It's appearing twice in the NM applet with different names. > > It's actually a RaLink RT2860, but it's additionally being identified > as Intel 82801G. Looking in the logs

Re: Phantom wireless device

2009-08-21 Thread Rick Jones
--On Thursday, August 20, 2009 13:01:10 -0500 Larry Finger wrote: What do you have in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules? See attached What does the command iwconfig show? excluding stuff on non-wireless devices: ra0 RT2860 Wireless ESSID:"Jones" Nickname:"RT2860STA"

Re: Phantom wireless device

2009-08-20 Thread Larry Finger
Rick Jones wrote: > --On Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:20:35 -0400 John Mahoney > wrote: > >> Ubuntu just pushed new kernels. Did you just pick one up. I got the > message two days ago, but have not *rushed* into grabbing them. Maybe a > regression? > > I'm not using those kernels, I run a versio

Re: Phantom wireless device

2009-08-20 Thread Rick Jones
--On Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:20:35 -0400 John Mahoney wrote: Ubuntu just pushed new kernels. Did you just pick one up. I got the message two days ago, but have not *rushed* into grabbing them. Maybe a regression? I'm not using those kernels, I run a version of 2.6.29 slightly tweaked f

Re: Phantom wireless device

2009-08-20 Thread John Mahoney
Ubuntu just pushed new kernels. Did you just pick one up. I got the message two days ago, but have not *rushed* into grabbing them. Maybe a regression? On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Rick Jones wrote: > I've suddenly started getting strange behaviour with my WiFi device. It's > appearing twice

Phantom wireless device

2009-08-20 Thread Rick Jones
I've suddenly started getting strange behaviour with my WiFi device. It's appearing twice in the NM applet with different names. It's actually a RaLink RT2860, but it's additionally being identified as Intel 82801G. Looking in the logs both IDs are device ra0, which is getting NM a bit confuse