On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:52:06PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > 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? I have ipw2200 wireless Ethernet. Sometimes the binary blob looses its marbles. I've found it useful to stop NetworkManager (NM), remove the blob, re-insert it, then start NM up again. service NetworkManager stop ; service NetworkManagerDispatcher stop rmmod ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200 service NetworkManager start ; service NetworkManagerDispatcher start -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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