Ubuntu

wireless card stopped working after kernel updates

Bug #117366 reported by jkersten
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Ubuntu
Fix Released
Undecided
Brian Murray

Bug Description

My Intel wireless 3945abg mini pci-e card stopped working after installing the kernel updates made available through the update manager today (May 28 2007). The wireless cars stopped working after rebooting.

lspci does see my wireless card and says:
0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

However, the wireless networks no longer appear in the network manager and the wireless card itself no longer appears under System->Administration->Network.

I am using feisty 7.04 on a Dell Inspiron 6400.

Regards,

Juergen

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Do you also have package 'linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-generic' installed? You could check with 'dpkg -l linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-generic'. Thanks in advance.

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jkersten (juergen-tksoft) wrote : Re: [Bug 117366] Re: wireless card stopped working after kernel updates

Thanks Brian,

that problem is solved! I thought that after installing the restricted
modules they would be updated automatically whenever an update is
available but this was not the case.
After installing the updated modules it worked.

Thanks again,

Jürgen Kersten

Brian Murray wrote:
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. Do you also have package 'linux-restricted-
> modules-2.6.20-16-generic' installed? You could check with 'dpkg -l
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-generic'. Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. Thanks again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.

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Adam Ambrose (ambrosiarama) wrote :

As an aside, it seems like there is a separate bug here, in that the restricted modules package *should* have been updated by the update manager, along with the kernel, but wasn't.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

Adam:
What is the output of:
dpkg -l linux-restricted-modules-\*| grep ii
Did you ever follow any guides telling you to uninstall packages? Is your system an upgrade?

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