(On Hardy Heron) After a normal update my wireless network and sound got viped out completly

[Patrick Jutbauge]

After a second install of Hardy heron everything was working fine...sound, wireless network and Nvidia drivers.
But after restart I didn't have any sound, wireless network or Nvidia driver. And I got told I don't need any restricted drivers.
If I use the earlier boot option then all is back to normal again except the restricted drivers.
Systems sound at start up and shut down never worked and I can't change the background picture.

Patrick Jutbauge

[Soundwire (soundwire45)]

Same thing happend to my atheros wireless network card. It does not show up in resrticted drivers and is not installed after update installed kernel 2.6.24-12-386, however it works fine with the previous kernel

[DanielRoesler (diafygi)]

I can confirm this. I updated Hardy Heron 8.04 beta, but when I restarted wireless and sound were gone. How do I get them back?

Sound:
Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

Wireless:
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

[DanielRoesler (diafygi)]

There is a related thread on ubuntuforums.org
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=730142

Apparently, the temporary solution to get sound and wireless working is to install 2.6.24-12-generic. I've tried the fix:
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sudo apt-get install linux-ubuntu-modules-$(uname -r)
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But all I get is:
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-12-generic is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-12-generic has no installation candidate
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What's the next step? The "uname -r" command returns "2.6.24-12-generic" so I don't know where to go from here.

[Conn O Griofa (psyke83)]

That should have fixed the problem; more than likely you didn't update the repository information or else you're using an outdated mirror.

This should fix it:
1. $ sudo apt-get update
2. $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
3. If you're not running kernel 2.6.24-15 (or the most recent kernel) yet, reboot and then skip to step 4.
4. $ sudo apt-get install linux-ubuntu-modules-$(uname -r) linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r)

The morale of the story? Never do a dist-upgrade when it elects to remove packages, or warns of held back packages.

[DanielRoesler (diafygi)]

Found the problem. When I updated the kernel, I didn't allow it to update menu.lst. So the grub menu was still set to 2.6.24-12. All I needed to do was change the 12 to a 15 in menu.lst. Everything is working now. Wireless and sound are back.

[Conn O Griofa (psyke83)]

Daniel,

It's not recommended to edit menu.lst in that way. Please paste the output of this: sudo update-grub

[DanielRoesler (diafygi)]

Conn wrote:
> Please paste the output of this: sudo update-grub

Thanks, I didn't know about that handy little command.

output of "sudo update-grub":
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Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-15-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
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[DanielRoesler (diafygi)]

Patrick, is this bug still occurring for you? I fixed my instance of this bug long ago.

[Patrick Jutbauge (ozviking)]

Hi Daniel,

No it's all fixed... after the next kernel update it worked well and has
done that all the time.

Cheers Patrick

DanielRoesler wrote:
> Patrick, is this bug still occurring for you? I fixed my instance of
> this bug long ago.
>
>

[DanielRoesler (diafygi)]

Submitter confirmed fixed.