Vista kills Ubuntu wireless

[NoOp]

On 09/03/2009 10:41 AM, Xandros Pilosa wrote:
> Young pravi:
> --snip--
>> 
>> Summary:
>> The same laptop connects wirelessly with Vista, but not Ubuntu.
>> Ubuntu fails to connect to two different routers, with the same symptoms 
>> each time.
>> Network Manager and Wicd both seem to have the same problem.
>> The Ubuntu Live CD was able to connect wirelessly before Vista was 
>> activated.
>> 
>> 
>> FWIW, I do like Wicd better.
>> 
>> 
>> Mark
> --snip--
> 
> Just a guess:
> you can check the mac address for your card. I had a problem once with 
> mac being reversed when resuming from STR or hibernation
> (00:56:... became...56:00) and in combination with mac filtering on the 
> router, the quickest solution was to add the reversed mac to allowed 
> clients list.

If that is the case, rather than putting in the reversed MAC address,
you can check/modify it here:

$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Or simply:

$ sudo mv /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.old

and reboot & let it regenerate itself. Note: I prefer to rename (mv) the
file rather than delete it just in case...

Issues with this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/208103
[/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file needed to be regenerated
to be able to use wireless after suspend (iwl3945)]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/329106
[upgrading to Jaunty renamed eth0 to eth1]
etc.