On Monday 26 January 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 25 January 2009 22:37:14 Claude Jones wrote: > > On Sunday 25 January 2009 13:58:13 Anne Wilson wrote: > > > This is following a reboot :-( ?I can't believe that it's a driver > > > issue, when it was working so well before this update. ?The driver is > > > kernel-provided, and that hasn't been touched. ?It's not making any > > > sense to me at the moment. > > > > You're not alone - something strange there - I'm thinking about it, but > > no further ideas are coming. Are you sure your radio is on? It should be > > turned on automatically when you reboot, even if you've managed to turn > > it off, but, you never know...are we talking about your ASUS? > > The Acer Aspire One, yes. I'm connected this morning. This reminds me of > the problem I had with NetworkManager-gnome - when it lost connection it > could not re-connect. In fact it couldn't see the network at all. Just > the same as I saw last night. I'll see what happens today. > > Anne Have you rebooted since seeing non-functioning driver or reloaded the driver? At random (with low probability) I get this. I just reload the kernel driver and then it works. Also with some probability, sometimes I notice I accidentally switch the wireless off with the physical switch :) The latter seems to require restarting NM to notice the switch is turned on (it shouldn't, but it does).