On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 21:53 +0000, Clive Woodfine wrote:
> 2009/1/23 B STEVENS <b.stevens611@???>:
> > i get the same problem with debian lenny sometimes, clive, so i use a
> > combination of the following commands to get it up and running:
> >
> > ip link set wlan0 up
> > iwconfig wlan0 essid "routername"
> > ifdown wlan0
> > ifup wlan0
> >
> > if you can tell me a way of making it permanent (on boot up), i'd appreciate
> > it.
> >
> > regards
>
> Thanks Brian. I am not at the problematic laptop at the moment so will
> have to try this later. I have not used the ip command so will give it
> a go. Others are better qualified to tell you how to run these
> commands at start up but you could put the commands in a shell script
> which runs with just one command. In Ubuntu you can run commands from
> "Sessions and Start-up settings". I expect Debian is similar.
>
> You may find this useful [1]
>
> What is puzzling to me is that the wireless worked perfectly for about
> 1 1/2 years and appears to work with other routers!
>
> [1] http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/28
>
> Phillip, Ubuntu uses the iwl3945 module for my wireless.
The funny thing here is that Ubuntu (upto 8.04) doesnt see my card,
hence having to use ndiswrapper and the net8185 driver.
The latest Debian Lenny see's my card natively but uses a driver that
doesnt like wpa, hence why I had to blacklist the driver and use the
net8185.
Strange how Ubuntu is a fork of Debian Ubstable. The changes Canonical
make must be quite big.
Have you tried "lspci -vv" to see if your OS is loading the correct
kernel module ? Im thinking you may have had a kernel update which could
have mucked your wireless.
You probably have, in which case ignore me.
Thanks
Phillip
