[Solved] No more WiFi after upgrade to Dapper

[samp]

Hi,

I upgraded my breezy to dapper by changing all breezy occurrences with
dapper in my sources.list, then apt-get update and upgrade, I had
several problems but after rebooting with the rescue option in grub I
succeed to upgrade...

But horror ! - My WiFi card "TI ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface" doesn't work anymore !!!

I have in ifconfig a wlan0 interface with the right MAC address but the dhcp client seems don't received any DHCPOFFERS responses after severals DHCPDISCOVER sent.

My DHCP client work fine with an eth0 and I got the local IP fine, in my Windows on the same machine the WiFi work fine too.

In KWIFIManager I have the right ESSID, the right channel and a good signal detected 44/46.

I have in the /etc/network/if-pre-up.d:

A script WPC54G_setup:
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#!/bin/sh
#

IWCONFIG=/sbin/iwconfig
IFACE=wlan0

$IWCONFIG "$IFACE" essid "Borne-01"
$IWCONFIG "$IFACE" key [1] "xxxxxx..............."
$IWCONFIG "$IFACE" channel 1
-----------------------------------------------

And a wireless-tool script:
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#!/bin/sh

IWCONFIG=/sbin/iwconfig

if [ ! -x $IWCONFIG ]; then
exit 0
fi

if [ -n "$IF_WIRELESS_SENS" ]; then
$IWCONFIG "$IFACE" sens $IF_WIRELESS_SENS
fi

if [ -n "$IF_WIRELESS_MODE" ]; then
$IWCONFIG "$IFACE" mode $IF_WIRELESS_MODE
fi

if [ -n "$IF_WIRELESS_AP" ]; then
$IWCONFIG "$IFACE" ap $IF_WIRELESS_AP
fi

if [ -n "$IF_WIRELESS_RATE" ]; then
$IWCONFIG "$IFACE" rate $IF_WIRELESS_RATE
fi

if [ -n "$IF_WIRELESS_RTS" ]; then
$IWCONFIG "$IFACE" rts $IF_WIRELESS_RTS
fi

if [ -n "$IF_WIRELESS_FRAG" ]; then
$IWCONFIG "$IFACE" frag $IF_WIRELESS_FRAG
fi

[...]
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That configuration worked fine before on Breezy

What's wrong ?

I think to upgrade from Breezy to Dapper for now it's not a good idea, lot of my previous Breezy configuration doesn't work now.

Sam.

[TheDarkSavant]

Re: No more WiFi after upgrade to Dapper

Were you using ndswrapper? I had the same problem with a card that used ndswrapper under Breezy, but Dapper had a native driver. The native driver and ndiswrapper clashed.

I found some help on the wiki, but I don't recall the exact page off the top of my head.

[samp]

Re: No more WiFi after upgrade to Dapper

Were you using ndswrapper? I had the same problem with a card that used ndswrapper under Breezy, but Dapper had a native driver. The native driver and ndiswrapper clashed.

I found some help on the wiki, but I don't recall the exact page off the top of my head.

I don't use the ndiswrapper but the acx.ko driver comming with the last 2.6.15.26 but I read some problems with the ACX drivers...

But the wlan0 is listed in ifconfig.

I tried the:

$IWCONFIG "$IFACE" key [1] "xxxxx.........."

and:

$IWCONFIG "$IFACE" key "s:the_pathphrase" open

It's the same...

Sam.

[samp]

[Solved] No more WiFi after upgrade to Dapper

Hi,

I uninstalled and re-install ndiswrapper-utils, do "ndiswrapper -i config.inf" and "ndiswrapper -m" and now it's work,don't ask me why...

Sam.