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network-manager package

  1. Bug #276508
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 276508

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Walter_Wittel (wittelw) wrote : Re: [intrepid] [Atheros AR5211] ath5k driver inoperative, wpa_supplicant never completes connection

I hit exactly the same thing this evening after upgrading ( 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 06:42:44 UTC 2008 i686 in my case). The driver was there and had been working up until tonight.

I tried a reinstall from Synaptic but that didn't help.

I am able to hit esc during boot and switch back to 2.6.27.7-generic which still has the driver (notice ath9k for both kernels):
walter@waltwld6:/lib/modules$ find . -iname 'ath5k*'
./2.6.27-6-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k
./2.6.27-6-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.ko
walter@waltwld6:/lib/modules$ find . -iname 'ath9k*'
./2.6.27-6-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k
./2.6.27-6-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.ko
./2.6.27-7-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k
./2.6.27-7-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.ko