[Mageia-dev] Wifi not working anymore

Mon Feb 20 23:20:08 CET 2012

* Olivier Thauvin (nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org) wrote:
+> * zezinho (lists.jjorge at free.fr) wrote:
+> > Le lundi 20 février 2012 21:01:07, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
+> > > Hello here,
+> > > During the update I got disconnected from wifi and I am unable to
+> > > connect to any wifi anymore (wifi I am used: at home, my android phone,
+> > > etc.).
+> > > 
+> > > Does anyone have notice the same things ?
+> > > 
+> > 
+> > I had the same problem several times, because of dracut/systemd I think.
+> > My WiFi driver (dkms-broadcom) was removed while updating.
+> > 
+> > I wait for Beta1 to see if it gets stable....
+> 
+> In case the problem is still here after rebooting, reloading the module,
+> killing wpa_supplicant, etc...
+> 
+> My wifi card is a intel "wlwifi" card.
+
+Following:
+
+http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/gentoo-user-wireless-deauthenticating-by-local-choice-help-204640041.html
+
+iwconfig wlan0 power off
+fixed the issue...
+
+Don't ask me how !
+
+> 
+> Regards.
+> 
+> -- 
+> 
+> Olivier Thauvin
+> CNRS  -  LATMOS
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+Olivier Thauvin
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