atheros card suddenly stopped working in feisty

[Jeff Fortin Tam]

I have a computer running feisty that is set to automatically install security updates.

It uses network manager and an atheros card, which used to work perfectly fine, until a few days ago it started not being recognized by the system anymore (does not appear in nm-applet or in gnome's network-admin).

What I noticed in syslog is this:
atheros unable to attach hardware didn't respond as expected

Could there have been changes to the way it worked in the past few weeks?
Booting into a previous kernel (2.6.20-15 instead of 2.6.20-16) does not solve the problem.

Please, help me getting it working again, in some way.

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

I forgot to mention this computer is not used by me, and the users have no administrative powers on that computer. I leave that computer as "self-managed" by automatic security updates. It has been running without problems since the feisty release, until now.

[David Portwood (dzportwood)]

hank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information.

Please include the information requested at [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingHardwareDetection as separate attachments.

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

As I don't see a way to attach multiple files at once, be prepared to have your inbox flooded.

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

Does this help you? Any more information I can provide to help troubleshoot this?

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

Whatever, dist-upgraded to gutsy and the problem is gone. I guess I'll never know what happened.