[ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

[Jon Reynolds]

 Well, This is a bit of a rant I'm afraid... need to vent.

 <rant class="frustrated">What gives with wireless? Why is it such an 
 issue for Ubuntu? 'Almost' every time I perform an apt-get upgrade or in 
 this case, a distribution upgrade, my wireless breaks! I'm getting 
 really fed up of it.

 Now I don't want to be seen as whinging about something but not helping 
 to fix it, but it has been fixed in the past, as I have been using wifi 
 before on many previous versions on this hardware. But for some reason, 
 my particular wireless h/w, seems to get forgotten about or lost or 
 whatever whenever there is a major upgrade and I have to wait, sometimes 
 several weeks, for one of the upgrades to fix it. Or try various 
 different methods found by googling, which don't all work, which I fear 
 is cluttering up my system.

 I don't understand how if it is fixed, why that bit of code or whatever 
 it is doesn't just stay put.

 </rant>

 Right now, after an upgrade to 11,04, I have no wireless devices 
 detected. Its not that I can't connect, I don't even have any wlan 
 detected.

 Its a Realtek.

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 Jon Reynolds (j0nr)
 http://www.jcrdevelopments.com