Asus Aspire One Network Woes

[Karl F. Larsen]

Aart Koelewijn wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:57:19 +0000, Graham Watkins wrote:
>
>   
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I've just installed Intrepid onto an Aspire One notebook for a friend of
>> mine.  However, I am having intermittent networking problems.  It has
>> connected long enough to download and install 245 updates (this may be
>> where the problem started) and Virtual Box (he wants MS Access) but
>> after the last restart the network was disconnected and I could not
>> persuade it to connect.
>>
>> To connect at all, I had to connect the ethernet cable from my desktop
>> box to the notebook.  Switch off the modem, switch it back on and then
>> start the notebook.  This has worked but it isn't working now.  When I
>> start up, the network icon shows that the network is being searched for
>> but it then  reports it as disconnected.  Attempts to reconnect fail.
>>
>> If it's worked before surely it can be made to work again.   All tips
>> gratefully received.
>>     
    I have Intrepid on my laptop too, and the last updated kernel 
stopped my WiFi dead! There is something real bad in that kernel! I have 
Grub set up to boot on the next-newest kernel and WiFi works just fine. 
I hope it will for you.

Karl



>> Cheers,
>>     
>
> Try if will have your network back when you boot with an older kernel. If 
> that works, complete the update. It sometimes happens that you get a 
> newer kernel but not all the (restricted) modules for that kernel.
>
> Aart
>
>
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