Networking lost following update [SOLVED]

Frisco · posted: 2009-03-13 10:11

After running Synaptic Package Manager last night the wifi connection was lost on reboot.

Attempts to recover the connection were not successful.

This is the bane of many linux distros that work well; eventually an update will bork something, most likely the network adaptor on this machine, an rll8187b Realtek.

I tried starting from scratch, resetting everything, reconfiguring as a new connection, but that resulted in the same thing every time; adaptor not even seen by the utility. I then tried using ndiswrapper; same result.

No more antiX. At least not unless someone knows what this is all about and can help; it's a great, fast distro.

anticapitalista · posted: 2009-03-13 11:30

These threads may help.

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Did it work OOTB before the upgrade?

Frisco · posted: 2009-03-13 17:21

anticapitalista wrote:These threads may help.

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Did it work OOTB before the upgrade?

Sure did. It was working through many other updates. But this one, involving a lot of"lib" this and that, a huge list of packages, borked it.

anticapitalista · posted: 2009-03-13 17:25

What repos are you using?

Standard repos have been quiet here.

Edit: Forget that. I noticed a fresh upgrade will download 246MB of apps!

Did you try all the neworking tools?
Mepis network, ceni and wicd?

Frisco · posted: 2009-03-13 18:01

Hey, I don't know what happened.. but I just shut down (not reboot) and then started and everything works now normally; I made NO changes at all.

Now I need to learn about why THAT would happen. __{{emoticon}}__ __{{emoticon}}__ __{{emoticon}}__

anticapitalista · posted: 2009-03-13 18:12

The magic hand of antiX at work __{{emoticon}}__

Glad it is back working, and I hope it stays that way.

Frisco · posted: 2009-03-13 18:58

anticapitalista wrote:The magic hand of antiX at work __{{emoticon}}__

Glad it is back working, and I hope it stays that way.

Any theories as to why?

The reboot following the upgrades from Synapic Package Manager caused loss of connection and no connectivity available. The networking icon in the tray even vanished.

After an hour of trying to start over, even attempting ndiswrapper with a driver I downloaded from Realtek's site, I shut it down and replaced the hard drive with our Vista original hard drive because I wanted to get online and ask around about the problem.

I then decided to put the borked antiX hard drive back in to fool around with it and it connected normally and still has the connection. I was very surprised. I really would like to know why that happened: lost networking on reboot, regained on shut down and boot. __{{emoticon}}__

(edit): by the way, the attempt with ndiswrapper only resulted in error messages when I tried to use modprobe, so I deleted the driver and tried again using antiX's wpa_gui and the other networking tools to no avail. ndiswrapper never did load.