WiFi problems...

[Raquel]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:27:29 -0500
Roy Smith <rasmith1959 at gmail.com> wrote:

>     As promised, here's an update on how things went.  Upgrading to
> Intrepid didn't help at all, in fact it killed my WiFi and couldn't
> connect at all.  Reverting back to Heron and installing wicd didn't
> help either.  Had the same problem with it as before.  I had
> downloaded the Live-CD ISO for Intrepid, so I've had plenty of
> practice installing Ubuntu....  :-)
> 
> Just on a whim I decided to put the Live-CD in my laptop, an lo and
> behold the WiFi works on it.  I had tried before to get Heron
> working on this HP Compac nx6325 with the Broadcom 802.11 card but
> didn't have any luck.  Though with Intrepid it's working
> perfectly...  So now I'm happy for the moment... at least until I
> do something stupid and hose the system.  ;-)

This was something that I forgot to mention with Intrepid on my
laptop.  I had to go back from the -11 kernel to the -9 kernel.

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