regression from 9.04. wireless sometimes not recovering after suspend.

[Jay Daniels]

On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 15:18 +0100, Nickolai Toupikov wrote:
> Hello,
> I have an annoying issue. Sometimes after RAM or Disk suspend wireless 
> does not come back up. log messages say "mac is in deep sleep", which is 
> um... enlightening...
> 
> The problem came up after the 9.10 upgrade.
> 
> It is not a Network manager issue since wicd does the same. I tried 
> downgrading microcodes with no result.
> 
> I have already filed a bug report, which is successfully gathering dust 
> on launchpad, so i guess im pretty much on my own here. so only one 
> question : is
> 
> could anyone else give me a hint to how to check WHAT has been changed 
> during the upgrade?  like a detailed specification or something?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nickolai
> 
> PS: link to bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/470709
> 

I have had problems with network manager and wicd in hardy too.  When
not connected I right-click and click edit wireless networks and my WAP
Passcode is showing twice in the string such as xxxxxxxxxxxXXXXXXXXXXXXX
I correct his problem and then it connects.

However, if I shutdown and start it back up, it usually has no problem
connecting.

When I tried Jaunty or Karmic, I would have real problems connecting to
wifi.  It would show a corrupted string for the connection name in
network manager.

As for 9.10, I had to ditch this bitch because unknown random seg faults
in several applications (Empathy, Synaptics, but mainly Evolution!).
Never have this problem in Hardy.

Jaunty, ok release, but Karmic, well it just makes Linux look real real
bad with all the unresolved bugs most of which are set to low priority
status and I don't think they will ever be fixed.  I can imagine there
are a lot more bugs that are not reported here because people just
reload Jaunty or Hardy so they can use their computer.

I don't want to start a flame war, but I would suggest avoiding Karmic
like the plague and wait till the end of April for the next LTS release.
Hey if ain't broke, don't fix it!  You are just asking for problems.
Hardy has been rock solid for me, so I guess I will stick with LTS.



jay