[ale] Lost Wireless on Laptop

[James P. Kinney III]

Hmm. The 8139too is a RealTek device. Check the contents
of /etc/modprobe.conf for the modules the system loads by default. You
may need to remove a line referring to 8139too and replace it with one
for the Intel card. I don't know the module for the Intel card.

Check the logs on the upgrades as the culprit is most likely one of
them.

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 08:37 -0500, Jim Moore wrote:
> Wednesday I fired up the laptop and did several things:
> 1.  Used the software updater to get Samba software.
> 2.  Attempted to install the Livna rep (unsuccessful, but that's another 
> issue to be resolved later)
> 3.  The software updater updated about 15 packages.
> 4.  Dinked around the internet some.
> 5.  Shut Down.
> 
>  Thursday I fired up the laptop and ran into problems.
> 1.  As it was booting when it got to networking, rather than getting ip 
> address for eth1 I got the message that " 8139too  device doesn't seem 
> to be present"  Wireless for the laptop is Intel ProWireless 2200BG 
> which is on eth1
> 2.  Went to Sys-Admin-Network and checked the device for eth1,  it's 
> listed as the Intel card, but shows not activated.
> 3.  Tried to activate, but get the message that "8139 not present"
> 4.  Finally just shut down.
> 
> Am at a loss.  Is there someway to locate this mysterious "8139" and 
> delete it thereby restoring the Intel?
> Could always just. blow the partition and re-install.  Nothing critical 
> that I would lose
> 
> How would one even go about probing for a mysterious device.  I can do 
> some of the simple things at the command line, but know I've just 
> scratched the surface of its capability and have so much to learn.
> 
> Jim
> 
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