Re: Phantom wireless device

[Rick Jones <rick activeservice co uk>]

--On Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:20:35 -0400 John Mahoney <jmahoney waav com> wrote:

> Ubuntu just pushed new kernels. Did you just pick one up. I got the message two days ago, but have not *rushed* into grabbing them. Maybe a regression?

I'm not using those kernels, I run a version of 2.6.29 slightly tweaked for the Eee. I've been running the same kernel for months so nothing's changed in that respect.

Thanks for the ideas though!

Rick

> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Rick Jones <rick activeservice co uk> wrote:
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> I've suddenly started getting strange behaviour with my WiFi device. It's appearing twice in the NM applet with different names.
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> It's actually a RaLink RT2860, but it's additionally being identified as Intel 82801G. Looking in the logs both IDs are device ra0, which is getting NM a bit confused. Sometime it connects, sometimes it fails and hangs. The NM daemon also dies periodically which I suspect is related.
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> I can't think of any system change that's induced this, it's definitely not related to updating NM. I'm running 0.7.1.git.5.272c6a626-0ubuntu1~nm1~jaunty from Launchpad, and it's been working fine since I installed this version until a few days ago. Re-booting doesn't fix it.
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> I suspect it may be a udev issue, but I don't know where to look. Any ideas?
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> Typical extract of the log file is attached, with everything happening twice on ra0.
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