Asus Aspire One Network Woes

[Raquel]

On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:05:59 -0700
"Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Raquel wrote:
> > On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:05:23 -0700
> > "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >>> Now I'm not sure what's going on.  I just rebooted into -9 and
> >>> the networks still don't show up.  Now I have no idea of where
> >>> to go.
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>     Did you look at the two tiny computers in the upper right
> >> corner? Click there and see if you see what you want.
> >>
> >>
> >> Karl
> >>     
> >
> > Yes.  I've clicked on the Network Manager icon.  My ethernet
> > connection shows up but no wireless, where once it did.
> >
> > "lspci" detects the card.
> >
> > I'm an "old-time" network person so I had my wired network
> > settings in /etc/network/interfaces because that's what I knew.
> > Then I transferred control over to Network Manager.  I don't know
> > where anything is stored to figure out how to "fix" it.
> >
> >   
>     Did your WiFi work with a older kernel?
> 
> Karl
> 

I've had the notebook 2 weeks.  I got rid of Windows Vista and
installed Intrepid.  I read a bunch of posts on the Ubuntu forum and
found that I needed to install additional packages, specifically the
linux-backports-modules-intrepid package, to make wireless work with
my Atheros AR928x wireless card ... and it did.  I went downtown to
where I know there's a publicly available network and I found 12,
but it was freezing cold and I needed to work on my firewall. Back
home I found 2 wireless networks that neighbors have.  Somewhere
between there and now, wireless has stopped working and I cannot
locate any wireless networks using -7, -9 or, -11.

I'm reading everything I can find on using NetworkManager with
Intrepid but am not finding much help yet for my problem.  I'm
wondering if it would help to force aptitude to reinstall
NetworkManager?

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