Wifi out on Aspire One

[Frans]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:52:08 -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:56:19 -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Curtis Vaughan <cavaughan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> After installing 9.04 several days ago, today my wifi is suddenly not
>>> working at all.  > I have an Aspire One ZG5, which I originally
>>> install Hardy on. I have to say that 9.04 was solid until this
>>> happened.
>> 
>> I'd try the following things -
>> 
>> 0 - right click on the network manager applet and make sure enable
>> wireless is checked
>> 
>> 1 - full shutdown and at least 30 second pause (not reboot, not
>> hibernate, not suspend)
>> 
>> 2 - mine goes flakey if it's overheating.  comes back fine when cooled
>> off
>> 
>> 3 - check that switch on the lower right corner - since the lights
>> don't work in Jaunty and there's no on screen pointer you bumped it, it
>> could be off.
>> 
>> 4 - as per the note Frans posted, make sure you didn't install the
>> proprietary drivers
>> 
>> 5 - do an 'sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade' in a
>> terminal or use Synaptic to make sure you are completely up to date
>>      (I don't trust that new updates required indicator!)
>> 
>> 6 - if you've still got issues, tell us more about what you see and
>> what you are trying to do.
>> 
>> Brian
> 
> Well, today it was performing differently, but still not connecting. So
> in the end I went to the link Frans sent and followed the advice - kind
> of. One person said they disabled the Proprietary Driver using the app
> for that. Well, it wasn't enabled there, so I enabled it. Rebooted. Then
> disabled it, and now it works. Go figure!

Yes, it's a strange problem, luckily the kernel people know about it:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/22/196

    -Frans