Downloaded and installed latest version of Kubuntu on a clean HP Pavilion computer. It picked up the wifi card and all I had to do was give it the key. Everything worked great. I have to hand it to Kubuntu for being able to achieve this so seamlessly.
After a couple of reboots because of installing other non-network hardware, everything was working well. Ath0 and all of it's setting were always present when I checked. I disabled the eth0 card early on.
The final step was to allow the automatic update to update 100 packages. Everything went without a problem. I shutdown and the next morning when I booted, I had no wifi card listed under Networking. All of my settings for Ath0 were gone!
It won't even detect that there is a wifi card installed in the computer.
'lspci' shows the Atheros Ethernet card, but has 'unknown device' in description.
'auto scanning' of the network doesn't detect the wifi card, only the eth0, which showed up active (not disabled).
So, I reinstalled Kubuntu again from scratch. It configured the wifi card and everything worked right again. I ran the update again and it broke.
Any ideas what caused the updating of the packages to break the wifi networking or how to troubleshoot it further or things to test?
It has an onboard eth0 that shows up but the ath0 doesn't after the 'security updates'. 'ipconfig' only has loop and eth0. 'iwconfig' says 'no wireless devices'.
I'm a little light on wifi troubleshooting. Thanks for any ideas.
wifi: D-Link DWL-G510
Kubuntu 6.06
HP Pavilion 450n
After a couple of reboots because of installing other non-network hardware, everything was working well. Ath0 and all of it's setting were always present when I checked. I disabled the eth0 card early on.
The final step was to allow the automatic update to update 100 packages. Everything went without a problem. I shutdown and the next morning when I booted, I had no wifi card listed under Networking. All of my settings for Ath0 were gone!
It won't even detect that there is a wifi card installed in the computer.
'lspci' shows the Atheros Ethernet card, but has 'unknown device' in description.
'auto scanning' of the network doesn't detect the wifi card, only the eth0, which showed up active (not disabled).
So, I reinstalled Kubuntu again from scratch. It configured the wifi card and everything worked right again. I ran the update again and it broke.
Any ideas what caused the updating of the packages to break the wifi networking or how to troubleshoot it further or things to test?
It has an onboard eth0 that shows up but the ath0 doesn't after the 'security updates'. 'ipconfig' only has loop and eth0. 'iwconfig' says 'no wireless devices'.
I'm a little light on wifi troubleshooting. Thanks for any ideas.
wifi: D-Link DWL-G510
Kubuntu 6.06
HP Pavilion 450n
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