[Linux-wlan-ng-devel] Bug#742866: linux-wlan-ng broke my wifi - Module p80211 not found

[Josef Kufner]

Source: linux-wlan-ng
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

after recent update, I found my wifi dead and 'ifup wlan0' reporting this:

FATAL: Module p80211 not found.
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/linux-wlan-ng-pre-up: Failed to load p80211.ko.

After removing linux-wlan-ng and linux-wlan-ng-firmware packages and reboot,
wifi works fine.

$ lspci | grep Wireless
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan]
Network Connection (rev 02)

$ uname -a
Linux 3.13-1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.13.7-1 (2014-03-25) i686 GNU/Linux

I guess /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/linux-wlan-ng-pre-up script should be more
careful, especially when all it have to do is nothing.

Have a nice day!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash