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Comment 2 for bug 67648

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Mark S. Rice (mr-ice) wrote : Re: [Bug 67648] Re: orinoco pcmcia gold fails until prism2_plx is unloaded

Brian Murray wrote:
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. You reported this bug before the final version of Edgy was
> released. We were wondering is this still an issue with Edgy? Thanks
> in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
>
 Your email was very timely. I have not had any problems until a few
weeks ago. With the kernel update 2.6.17-11, the wireless stopped
working. So I was selecting 2.6.17-10 on boot to get it to work.

The email just reminded me of the earlier problem. So I just now
blacklisted prism2_plx in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. Now the wireless
works with 1.6.17-11.

I originally just saw the problem with the live CD. But I removed and
reloaded kernel modules before I installed edgy to the hard drive.
Then everything worked until 2.6.17-11.

I have an old Orinoco gold card plugged into a PCI bus adapter. This
seems to be very happy with the orinoco_plx module.