Faulty wireless card?

[Charles Curley]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:52:06PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Dell XPS M1210 which has a ipw3945 wireless card, which up
> until this morning was associating with access points with no problem.
> However, this morning it no longer works - NetworkManager no longer
> lists any wireless networks, iwlist scan reports no access points etc.
> I am strongly suspecting that, since nothing else changed, and since
> other computers still connect to the access point fine, that the
> wireless card has turned faulty. Is there any test I can do to verify
> this unambiguously?

I have ipw2200 wireless Ethernet. Sometimes the binary blob looses its
marbles. I've found it useful to stop NetworkManager (NM), remove the
blob, re-insert it, then start NM up again.

service NetworkManager stop ; service NetworkManagerDispatcher stop
rmmod ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200
service NetworkManager start ; service NetworkManagerDispatcher start

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