N wifi broke after kernel update

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Thu Apr 1 01:49:17 UTC 2010


On 03/31/2010 09:39 PM, Mail Lists wrote:
> On 03/31/2010 09:27 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
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>> Gene,
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>> Out of curiosity, did you check ipv6 settings?  You might have only ipv4 network, and ipv6 settings are enabled by default?
>>
>> I had such a case and I was cursing the new kernels, I wanted to write bug reports and do a bunch of things, I went to the Administrator of the network and blamed it on him, because wired connections would work and this one would not , I checked the settings again and again, several times over, saw the ipv6 check and removed it and solved the problem by myself :) I hope a solution like this is possible for you, if not, I still tried and shared my story.
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>> Regards,
>>
>> Antonio 
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>   I thought about that too but IPV6 is set to 'ignore' in nm-applet -
> unless there is somewhere else that needs it ?


   I do see AAAA dns requests but only after A request fails - which of
course happens when network is down. I dont know who is doing IP6
requests tho' ..


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