Re: Wireless broken after partial upgrade

On 05/08/2009 07:30 AM, Jamie Griffin wrote:

Hi everyone

I am using Jaunty and this morning the update manager popped up with
an option to do a partial upgrade. I selected to run it and it
completed without any errors. However, when i rebooted the machine my
wireless connection is no longer available.

A newer kernel has been installed, from 2.6.28.11 to 2.6.28.12, and
with the newer kernel i think the driver for my wireless card is not
present. I've booted from the older kernel and wireless connection is
working as it should.

It's not too much of a problem because i have, at least, got a
kernel that is functioning with my all of my hardware but i would
like to sort it out if possible and need some advice on how to go
about that.

With the older kernel, the driver in use is the Broadcom STA wireless
driver. My wireless card is Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g.
If i boot using the newer kernel do i just need to download the
driver and install it; and can i do that using the package manager
(apt, aptitude, synaptic, etc) or do i have to get it from the
Broadcom site?

I use the same driver & when I did the upgrade to 12 I had no issues.
From the 11 kernel you might want to try updating & upgrading again:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install -f
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

Also check in synaptic to see if any updates are being held back.


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