Re: Weird Problem
Alex Schultz <[email protected]>
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Hi,
It would be much more helpful if you post the full dmesg from the point
the driver is loaded and on. If possible, it would also help to enable
debugging in usbdfu.o using:
modprobe usbdfu debug=1
Alex Schultz
Mark Sansome wrote:
>I apologise in advance to the good people of this list because this may not
>be a driver problem; but I don't know where else to turn to help me
>troubleshoot and solve this problem.
>
>I have just lost my Internet connection in Linux for no apparent reason.
>
>I have been using the system with no problems for months now - it is my
>primary home PC and I almost never boot into Windows any more. Yesterday I
>upgraded my kernel (via RedHat's up2date system) from 2.6.6.something to
>2.6.7.something. As usual I had to re-make the at76c503 drivers but that
>worked just fine. I have been using it ever since with no problem. This
>morning I was surfing to make an online flight booking and found that the
>site I needed would only work with IE5+ (urghh!) so I switched to Windows
>(dual boot system). I made the booking and then switched back to Linux.
>No Internet!....
>
>If I do a modprobe the at75c503 driver seems to be loaded OK and dmesg seems
>to confirm this.
>BUT... iwconfig says no wlan0 device (or some such).
>
>It is clearly not a hardware or ISP problem because I am writing this to you
>the same system (now back in Windows unfortunately).
>
>What happened? Why working one minute and not the next - I made no changes
>(that I am aware of)? The only thing I did that was different to usual was
>that I did not take care to close every open application before I shut down
>(using the normal "log out -> shutdown" method) and I did have several open
>applications including a running clamscan virus scan going in a terminal. Is
>it possible that a file has become corrupted somewhere?
>
>I did try unistalling and reinstalling the driver - no joy. I also tried
>booting back in the 2.6.6 kernel with a similar lack of success.
>
>How do I troubleshoot?
>
>I hope you can help.
>
>Many thanks - as always
>
>Mark
>
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