Hi,
When I first installed Hardy on my gf's old laptop a couple of weeks ago, the Broadcom 4306-based card worked like a dream with KNetworkManager. (This pleased me greatly, as I'd had to give up on the same model of card for my Gentoo box a while ago.)
However, when I did the update run a couple of days ago -- including, IIRC, the 2.6.24-17 kernel -- after rebooting I found that KNM reported "no network card found". b43 was correctly loaded and I didn't see any problems in dmesg, but KNM was blank. Oddly, though, in the Manual Configuration dialogue, wlan0 would be listed and could be configured, though this still meant I couldn't connect to our WPA router.
I did a "iwlist wlan0 scan" which returned "no scan results"; instantly, so I don't think it even tried to scan.
I removed kernel-2.6.24-17 and rebooted back to 2.6.24-16, and everything worked fine again.
I'd like some diagnosis on this. Could this have been due to having two kernels installed at once, or is is more likely that the new kernel doesn't like me? Going back to my Gentoo experience with this card, b43 never worked for me there. The old bcm43xx driver had worked, but this was removed from the stock 2.6.24 Gentoo kernel. I'm rather worried that some patch has just arrived in 2.6.24-17 that'll make the card as useless here as it had become on Gentoo. Any ideas?
When I first installed Hardy on my gf's old laptop a couple of weeks ago, the Broadcom 4306-based card worked like a dream with KNetworkManager. (This pleased me greatly, as I'd had to give up on the same model of card for my Gentoo box a while ago.)
However, when I did the update run a couple of days ago -- including, IIRC, the 2.6.24-17 kernel -- after rebooting I found that KNM reported "no network card found". b43 was correctly loaded and I didn't see any problems in dmesg, but KNM was blank. Oddly, though, in the Manual Configuration dialogue, wlan0 would be listed and could be configured, though this still meant I couldn't connect to our WPA router.
I did a "iwlist wlan0 scan" which returned "no scan results"; instantly, so I don't think it even tried to scan.
I removed kernel-2.6.24-17 and rebooted back to 2.6.24-16, and everything worked fine again.
I'd like some diagnosis on this. Could this have been due to having two kernels installed at once, or is is more likely that the new kernel doesn't like me? Going back to my Gentoo experience with this card, b43 never worked for me there. The old bcm43xx driver had worked, but this was removed from the stock 2.6.24 Gentoo kernel. I'm rather worried that some patch has just arrived in 2.6.24-17 that'll make the card as useless here as it had become on Gentoo. Any ideas?
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