WiFi quit

[Karl Larsen]

pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
> I had this happen on the last kernel upgrade and discovered that the 
> restricted-extras package did not upgrade.  Had to manually reinstall.
> Paul
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Monday, February 2, 2009 3:37:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: WiFi quit
>
>
>     On my laptop with Ubuntu 8.10 installed I was able to get the WiFi
> working with ease. But a week ago it came up with no choice to use WiFi.
> It works fine on wired Internet but the WiFi no longer shows up.
>
>     I have been trying to get it working using the VPN things you get
> with NetworkManager Applet 0.7.0 using the proper LEAP security things
> but to date it will not work. Is there something else I need to
> check/fix? The WiFi does not even show up as a choice any more so
> something I have forgot is needed.
>
> Karl
>
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    Boy! are you ever right! I had been booting with the -11 kernel, so 
I boot this time with the -9 kernel and WiFi works fine again.

    I wonder if anyone has filed a bug on this yet? I will just continue 
to boot with -9 and await a new kernel with this fixed in the near future.

    Thanks for the tip. I would have been digging for a long time 
without it :-)

This msg is from my laptop now on WiFi ...

Karl