Wireless gone in kernel ~20 - and come back in 21!!!

[nilsA]

After the upgrade to kernel 2.6.24-20-generic, my wireless PCMCIA SMC card disappears.

iwconfig

gives just:

lo    no wireless extensions.

eth0   no wireless extensions.

So, I boot into kernel 2.6.24-19-generic,

and the card is there.

iwconfig:

lo    no wireless extensions.

eth0   no wireless extensions.

wifi0  no wireless extensions.

ath0   IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"T8" Nickname:""
     Mode:Managed Frequency:2.467 GHz Access Point: 00:13:F7:61:36:D6
     Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:11 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
     Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
     Power Management:off
     Link Quality=36/70 Signal level=-60 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
     Rx invalid nwid:1382 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
     Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

This, of course, is mostly a problem with me being curious. I can live well using kernel 2.6.24-19-generic. What bother me is really that the first install of the new kernel did go wrong - I could not boot at all (not get beyond the

Starting up

message.

So, today I did the sudo apt-get upgrade & update routine; got the kernel once more - and everything seems fine; just not the WIFI card.

Anyone understand why? How to fix it?

[madtom1999]

Re: Wireless gone in kernel ~20

My atheros wireless card has gone missing too!
booting with the 19~ kernel gets it back thank goodness!!

[nilsA]

Re: Wireless gone in kernel ~20

My atheros wireless card has gone missing too!
booting with the 19~ kernel gets it back thank goodness!!

Well there is comfort knowing that I'm not alone.

[nilsA]

Re: Wireless gone in kernel ~20

My atheros wireless card has gone missing too!
booting with the 19~ kernel gets it back thank goodness!!

Well there is comfort knowing that I'm not alone.

Hope I'm not the only one who have got things right after the last kernel ubgrade