edgy upgrade problem

[Michael R. Head]

On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 14:26 +0100, R Kimber wrote:
> Why has my upgrade to Edgy screwed up my wireless connection? No
> warning beforehand that things might be different and no information
> after the event explaining that it might happen and this is how you fix
> it.

There's a problem that I experienced that may be the same one you are
seeing. It affects the "Orinoco" or "Prism2" based cards. The solution I
found is to do:

sudo modprobe -r orinoco_pci
sudo modprobe -r hostap_pci
sudo modprobe -r prism2_pci
sudo modprobe orinoco_pci

After that, my card works. Until this is fixed, you can hack up
your /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file to add:
blacklist prism2_pci


The bug report is here:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/63989

> I rather hoped that those bad old days were over.  Seemingly not.
> Fortunately, I didn't upgrade my main desktop machine.
> 
> Is there a webpage somewhere that explains how I get things working
> again?  I did Google, but couldn't find the answer.
> 
> Richard
> -- 
> Richard Kimber
> http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
> 
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Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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