Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Hi, > > I have a Dell XPS M1210 which has a ipw3945 wireless card, which up > until this morning was associating with access points with no problem. > However, this morning it no longer works - NetworkManager no longer > lists any wireless networks, iwlist scan reports no access points etc. > I am strongly suspecting that, since nothing else changed, and since > other computers still connect to the access point fine, that the > wireless card has turned faulty. Is there any test I can do to verify > this unambiguously? Did your firmware package get updated, or your kernel? # rpm -qa --last | tac Take a look in dmesg, I just got bounced off my 3945 with this wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:11:50:ad:ce:38 - assume out of range iwl3945: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x82000008. iwl3945: Error Reply type 0x00000000 cmd REPLY_SCAN_CMD (0x80) seq 0x442B ser 0x00000000 iwl3945: Can't stop Rx DMA. wlan0: failed to restore operationalchannel after scan iwl3945: No space for Tx iwl3945: Error sending REPLY_ADD_STA: iwl_enqueue_hcmd failed: -28 iwl3945: No space for Tx iwl3945: Error sending REPLY_TX_PWR_TABLE_CMD: iwl_enqueue_hcmd failed: -28 wlan0: No STA entry for own AP 00:11:50:ad:ce:38 Bleargh. -Andy
