On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 09:06 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Should be, but you're right, for whatever reason it is not running > with these recent kernels. > > I expect that correlates with iwconfig showing me ESSID:off/any. Well it showing you that means that nothing is even trying to connect :) > I'm thinking that (unless you've a better idea) I should do another > bisect for when that behaviour starts - hoping that whatever problem > led me to your patch, got fixed up later on, but superseded by this > different problem. Not sure, might be very time consuming. > The bootup messages on the Aspire One tell me: > wlan0 device: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) > wlan0 is controlled by ifplugd > wlan0 > waiting > wlan0 device: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) > wlan0 ifplugd is running > wlan0 no cable connected > wlan0 DHCP4 client NOT running > wlan0 > > And the bootup messages on the Fujitsu Siemens say: > wlan0 device: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02) > wlan0 is controlled by ifplugd > wlan0 > wlan0 device: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02) > wlan0 ifplugd is running > wlan0 no cable connected > wlan0 . . . is just beeing set up > wlan0 > > In each case, "no cable connected". Oi. This looks like it doesn't know that it's a wireless device I guess? johannes
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