[ale] wireless troubles

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed May 5 10:19:17 EDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 10:05 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> Ubuntu 10.4 on a Dell Latitude E6500.
> 
> Wireless is simply flaky.  Often times after rebooting the wireless card 
> is disabled, even though the physical switch is on. Rebooting will 
> sometimes resolve this issue.
> 
> Anyone???
> 


I've seen this behavior on my Aspire D250.  I originally thought
hardware problem but it only happened under XP.  The light would be on
but the card could not negotiate with any AP.  Restart did not fix.  I
had to power down and power up.





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