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Wifi card: HWadd 00:00:00:00:00:00

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I rebooted my wife's Debian Squeeze desktop without disturbing the
system otherwise. When the machine came up, wicd tells me there is no
netork connection. The wifi modem works for three laptops here (Mac,
Windows, Debian).

My wife's desktop has no network manager installed except wicd.
Unfortunately, I did not think to install lshw or rfkill packages for
her system. Running Ethernet Cat5 is impractical.

  # dmesg
  ...
  rt2860sta: module is from the staging directory, the quality is
  unknown, you have been warned.
  rt2860 0000:05:02:0 PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level,low) -> IRQ 18

  # lsmod 
    ...
    rt2860sta   0
    crc_ccit    1 rt2860sta

  # /etc/init.d/networking restart
    Reconfiguring network interfaces
    done

  # ifconfig wlan0 up
    SIOCSIFFLAGS:  Operation not permitted

  # rm /dev/rfkill
  # shutdown -r now

  # ifconfig wlan0
    Link encap: Ethernet HWadd 00:00:00:00:00:00 
    BROADCAST RUNNING

Even if there was a problem getting the network connection up, wouldn't
the card's HWadd be seen? Does the void address simply mean the
wireless card (Rosewill RNX_W300X) is busted?

Haines Brown
  

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Wifi card: HWadd 00:00:00:00:00:00  Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2013-06-14 14:28 -0400
  Re: Wifi card: HWadd 00:00:00:00:00:00 Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2013-06-15 12:59 +0000
    Re: Wifi card: HWadd 00:00:00:00:00:00 Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2013-06-15 13:09 -0400

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