(Solved)After an update wifi does not scan for connections.

[ka9yhd]

Did an update two days ago and now my wireless will not scan for any connection.  It does auto connect to my router.

When I open the network center and click on my wireless device wlan0 it does not show any connections.

Running PClinuxOS-OpenBox  Bonsai  2011.08  Wifi device is a Broadcom BCM 4318

Is there a log in Synaptic that I can post here to find out which update might have caused this?

[muungwana]

try to go pcc,delete the interface and reconfigure it

[T6]

+1

the weird thing is that it worked after the upgrade for 2 days until this morning, then i had to remove interface and restart 

[ka9yhd]

Ok I will try that.

How I discovered this is I took my laptop to a friends house and when I tried to connect to his router, the network center was not showing any routers to connect to.

[T6]

i restarted my router when it happened 

i suppose that wpa_supplicant update made this happen

[scoundrel]

I also ran into this with a friends LXDE who came over for some TLC .. funny thing she had been here before with her lappy and I set it up to connect here.. well I deleted the interface thing and started again and it retained her previous connection here.. guess the connection setup is not with the interface ..

[muungwana]

I also ran into this with a friends LXDE who came over for some TLC .. funny thing she had been here before with her lappy and I set it up to connect here.. well I deleted the interface thing and started again and it retained her previous connection here.. guess the connection setup is not with the interface ..

The information about wireless access point and the password to the access point is stored with the interface as well as in "/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf" config file.

The interface configuration file only keeps information about the last wireless network it was configured to while ""/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf" keeps all of them.

[ka9yhd]

Ok I have uninstalled or deleted the wireless using PCC.  Now when trying to install I am presented with use a windows driver or a file.  Since I do not have the b43 module in a file.

I will need to use a wired connection to get the b43 module.

[muungwana]

can you check in synaptic history what was updated?

what driver were you using before, if it is updated, it is updated to what driver?

Is there is a known problem with a newer version of a driver that managed some "Broadcom BCM 43XX" cards

[ka9yhd]

After uninstalling the wifi device I did a "modprobe b43" and rebooted now the network connection is showing available connections.

The only module that I have used on this laptop for the wifi is the b43 module for the BCM 4318 device.

Thank you.  Should I mark this thread as "solved"  Or are there any more thoughts you have on this?

Commit Log for Fri Oct 26 20:29:41 2012


Upgraded the following packages:
gtkdialog (0.8.2-1pclos2012) to 0.8.2-2pclos2012

Commit Log for Wed Oct 24 19:49:49 2012


Upgraded the following packages:
curl (7.27.0-1pclos2012) to 7.28.0-1pclos2012
feh (2.0-1pclos2011) to 2.7-1pclos2012
firefox (15.0.1-1pclos2012) to 16.0.1-1pclos2012
getvirtualbox (4.2.0-1pclos2012) to 4.2.2-1pclos2012
google-earth (6.2.1.6014-2pclos2012) to 6.2.2.6613-1pclos2012
libcurl4 (7.27.0-1pclos2012) to 7.28.0-1pclos2012
liblua5.1 (5.1.4-3pclos2012) to 5.1.5-1pclos2012
libnotify4 (0.7.5-1pclos2012) to 0.7.5-2pclos2012
libnspr4 (4.9-1pclos2012) to 4.9.2-1pclos2012
libnss3 (3.13.3-1pclos2012) to 3.13.6-1pclos2012
mencoder (4.5.2-2pclos2012) to 4.5.2-4pclos2012
mozilla-thunderbird (15.0-1pclos2012) to 16.0.1-1pclos2012
mplayer (4.5.2-2pclos2012) to 4.5.2-4pclos2012
mplayer-gui (4.5.2-2pclos2012) to 4.5.2-4pclos2012
nss (3.13.3-1pclos2012) to 3.13.6-1pclos2012
wpa_supplicant (0.7.3-1pclos2011) to 1.0-1pclos2012

[Yankee]

Curious, when you right-click the netapplet, click configure network,
click wireless, Does the driver(s) appear in the window there ?

Check if module-init-tool and dkms-minimal are installed too.   May
help getting the modules up and in faster.     Those are in Synaptic.

Then delete, reboot, recreate, connect, the usual routine.


regards,

FF

[muungwana]

"wpa_supplicant" update is probably the cause of the problem.If the problem is gone then you can mark it as solved, you can always reopen the thread afterwards.

[ka9yhd]

Once the Network & Internet configuration window comes up the only two options are

Wlan0: Wlan0

Wlan0: Use a Windows Driver (With ndiswrapper)

module-init-tools Is already installed.

dkms-minimal  Was not installed, I installed it.

[ka9yhd]

"wpa_supplicant" update is probably the cause of the problem.If the problem is gone then you can mark it as solved, you can always reopen the thread afterwards.

Ok I will mark this as solved.

Thank you.

[Yankee]

Once the Network & Internet configuration window comes up the only two options are

Wlan0: Wlan0

Wlan0: Use a Windows Driver (With ndiswrapper)

Be sure dkms-minimal is installed from Synaptic and check again.
Should be more driver(s), the correct one, listed then in Bonsai.