9.04 doesn't see a reliable wireless card

Tue May 12 09:05:57 UTC 2009

On Monday 11 May 2009 06:36 pkaplan1 wrote:
> On Sunday 10 May 2009 15:24 Aart Koelewijn wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 May 2009 11:04:21 +0000, pkaplan1 wrote:
> > > My PC slot wirelss card which was recognized as ath0 by a number of
> > > prior versions of *buntu seems to be hidden in 9.04.
> > >
> > > Any ideas how to find it?
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > <html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0;
> > > }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 
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> > > color: #000000'>My PC slot wirelss card which was recognized as 
ath0
>
> by
>
> > > a number of prior versions of *buntu seems to be hidden in
> > > 9.04.<br><br>Any ideas how to find
> > > it?<br>Paul<br><br></div></body></html>
> >
> > I suppose you got a new kernel but not the restricted modules for that
> > kernel. That at least happened to me on thursday. When booting with the
> > old kernel ath0 was back, the new restricted modules where not 
available
> > thursday but I could instal them on saturday and after that I got ath0
> > with the new kernel.
> >
> > Aart
>
> Good thought.  However I do have  the kubuntu-restricted-extras, linux-
> restricted-modules and linux-restricted-modules-common packages
> installed.
>
> Any other ideas?
> P
To close this out....the device was formerly listed as ath0.  It is now listed 
as wlan0.  After having wicd look for the correct device everything is working 
again.