Great, now I lost my wireless :-/

[dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com (Duane Morin)]

Ready for this?  It appears to be an IRQ problem.  Reason I say 
that is:

1) Took out wireless card.  Ran kudzu --probe > p1
2) Put wireless card in.    Ran kudzu --probe > p2
3) diff p1 p2

p2 shows a generic MOUSE adapter being added!

I repeated several times -- remove wireless card, run kudzu probe, extra 
mouse adapter goes away.  And it does appears that my mouse (which is a 
synaptic touchpad, by the way) has been acting flaky lately, clicking on 
things I dont recall clicking.  I just assumed that my thumb had been 
drifting too heavily over the pad.

As I go digging into this new aspect of the problem (I didn't touch 
anythnig related to irqs that I can think of), if these symptoms trigger
a lightbulb for anybody I'd appreciate the help.


Duane

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 mvalites at banta-im.com wrote:

> >
> > I think what *might* have happened is that when I booted up at work
> > without my wireless card, Redhat popped up and asked me if I wanted to
> > remove the wireless configuration since the hardware was gone (it does
> > that).  I usually hit "keep configuration", but I suppose I could have
> > hit "remove configuration" by accident.
> 
> This runs because Redhat by default keeps kudzu in the runlevels.  You
> should be able to stop this from happening by going into
> /etc/rc{2,3,4,5}.d/ and moving the S??kudzu to K??kudzu.  I think it's
> S95, but I'm on a debian box right now and can't remember what it is. 
> However, if you un kudzu from the command line, it should hopefully pick
> up the card.  Let me know if that doesn't work.  Also check to make sure
> that the module for your wireless card is loaded.
> 
> ~Matt
>