My wifi just disappeared ...

[GRLaux]

Im not sure what happened. My wifi has been working ever since I installed kubuntu about 2 months ago ... then last night, I went to connect to a network, and it doesnt even show any "wireless" in network manager.

I hadnt installed any special drivers, so I assume I was still using the madwifi drivers (which were working fine.

iwconfig says:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.


... I dont have an ath0 anymore.

I love learning linux, but its a bit more difficult when I dont have the internet as a resource on the computer I have linux on.

Im trying to read the madwifi site to re-install the drivers, but I believe it may be outdated, and thus none of the process is working.

[kreggz]

Re: My wifi just disappeared ...

Try

lspci - This will list all your PCI devices

then

lsmod | grep ath_pci - This will show you if the a module is loaded for the atheros device

if its not there try:

sudo modprobe ath_pci

then dmesg to see what happens in your system log.