wireless giving trouble in Ubuntu recently

[Eric Lemoine]

On 10/18/06, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have noticed that in the last few days, I am not able to connect via
> the Networking GUI to my home wireless network. This on a Dell Inspiron
> 5160 laptop using bcm43xx kernel module on a 2.6.15 kernel. Is there
> something wrong in the networking GUI package or some related packages?
>   The laptop has a broadcom 1350 mini pci card:
>   {~}> lspci | grep -i ethernet 0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller:
> Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
>
> If I give a new essid and a wep key in the Networking GUI and try to
> connect, I notice that the entries in /etc/network/interfaces are not
> immediately updates.
>
> Comments about this are welcome.

Just a question : does it work if you manually configure
/etc/network/interfaces or is the problem lying somewhere else?

-- 
Eric