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

[Alan Bell]

On 03/05/11 11:26, Jon Reynolds wrote:
>
> 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.
>
do lsusb in a terminal and let us know the full line that relates to 
your wireless device.
Is this built in to some kind of laptop? Which model? If it is a 
certified model or the same wireless device is in a certified model then 
put that in the bug report.
So far this is a rant with out much actionable information, lets get it 
to a reportable and fixable bug report.

Alan.