[TriLUG] wireless in ubuntu

Matt Nash mattnash at intrex.net
Sun Mar 26 18:10:40 EST 2006


crimsun at fungus.sh.nu wrote:

>On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 11:55:05AM -0500, Matt Nash wrote:
>[..]
>  
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>>the HP windows drivers successfully.  When I installed Dapper flight 5, 
>>the installer correctly detected my wireless card (which Breezy didn't 
>>do) but it wouldn't actually work.  The "iwconfig eth0 txpower on" 
>>command returns "GET failed on device eth0 ; No such device."  When I 
>>use the KDE system configuration interface, it shows the adapter as 
>>disabled; when I click the enable button the adapter changes to enabled 
>>for just a second, then quickly goes back to enabled.
>>    
>>
>
>Please update && dist-upgrade to _current_ Dapper (if you're tracking
>our development release, you ideally should update && upgrade every
>hour at 49 minutes past using the main repository at
>archive.ubuntu.com). Can you reproduce the symptoms? If so, please
>file a bug [0] against the linux-source-2.6.15 source package.
>
>[0] https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+filebug
>
>Thanks,
>  
>
Thanks for your suggestions.

I tried this update with the same results.  I also submitted the bug 
report as you recommended.  Is there a way to remove the adapter as 
currently detected so that I can try to make ndiswrapper work again?

Thanks,
Matt



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