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mass04

New Member

Registered: 2009-12-08

Posts: 5

No wireless after upgrade

Hi,
I would like to say this all begins from trying to update chrome since it was not displaying pdf files properly.  I have a Sylvania gnetbook with a VIA c7 proc and had crunchbang (ubuntu 8.04) installed for sometime with it working out of the box.  However, yesterday I regret I did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade which had brought me up to Crunch 10 (Ubuntu 10.04).  Problem now is I cannot connect to my router (wired or wireless).  The wireless constantly searches for an ip address.  Here is some info (Im typing this since I have no net on the netbook):

:~$ nm-tool
Device wlan0
type: 802.11 wireless
driver: rtl8187
active: no
hw address 00:15:AF:BF:F1:1F

and then other wireless networks in the area
Network is wep 128 bit open.
seems like things are ok, except it keeps asking for my network key.  It nm-applet will not store the key?  Also if I click on the network icon on the toolbar and hit manual configuration I get a screen which says "Unsupported platform"  and states selecting something may cripple the cpu.  I have different distros to choose from here but Ubuntu is only supported up to 8.04???  I dont know it seems like something didnt get upgraded here?

Any help is appreciated.

Last edited by mass04 (2011-09-20 15:20:19)

ivanovnegro

Ivan #000000

From: unstable madness

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 5,431

Re: No wireless after upgrade

Can you activate it manually with:

modprobe rtl8187

and then verify:

iwconfig

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dubois

The Old Codger

From: Missoula, Montana

Registered: 2010-09-03

Posts: 2,238

Re: No wireless after upgrade

mass04, your comments seem to indicate you expected to upgrade to Ubuntu.  You do know that Crunchbang 10 is currently based on Debian Squeeze, or was that a typo??   SEE  CrunchBang 10 “Statler” r20110207