Wireless Card crashed and couldn't be fixed in Ubuntu (reboot into vista fixed it)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: network-manager
I have a HP 530 Laptop, and earlier today my wireless card just stopped working in Ubuntu 8.10 and the 'Enable Wireless' option from right clicking the network connection area in the panel became grayed out. Clicking the wireless button on my laptop (which normally correctly enables/disables the wireless) would not work at this stage.
Because it seemed like this might be a hardware fault I booted into a copy of the Ubuntu 8.10 LiveCD (which I am fairly certain worked with this laptop) and the wireless card still didn't work. At this stage I strongly suspected a hardware fault.
So I then booted into the Vista installation software partition also on this laptop (as I figured the service technitions would probably want me to check if it worked in Vista). During the boot up processes of the vista installation software I noticed that the wireless light was now glowing, so I quit the installation before the EULA and rebooted into my normal partition where the wireless now worked.
So basically the bug is that some weird quirk killed my network card and Ubuntu didn't seem to be able to do anything about it, but the vista installation pre-setup did fixed the problem, so maybe Ubuntu should be doing that :)
I've reported this problem using ubuntu-bug so hopefully enough useful files should be attached, but please let me know if any other information might be useful.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
Package: network-manager 0.7~~svn2008101
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686
Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → New |
I've just had the essentially exact same experience. Sorry that I don't have any data to provide.
HP Laptop Pavilion DV5220us