[sllug-members]: need debian help

[Christer Edwards]

On Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 12:28:47PM -0400, tony wilson wrote:
> so i use Debian lenny, and a new kernel update came out, 2.6.24-1-686, and when i boot to it some of my drivers dont work. the driver thats really giving me the biggest hassle is my madwifi! i tried reinstalling madwifi, but it shows my pcmcia wireless card as disconnected. ive searched debian and madwifi forums but can seem to find any answers. the biggest change that i see is that under 2.6.23-3 it shows under iwconfig it shows ath0 and wifi0, where as under 2.6.24-1 iwconfig it shows ath0 and wmaster0. has anybody else experienced or heard similar issues, and fixes?

I saw some other recent discussion about that kernel.  Aaron from the
ubuntu group here couldn't use his wired nic after updating to that
kernel.  Without being able to offer you a solution, it is nice to know
that it seems a bit more widespread than just one machine.

Christer
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