[arch-general] Last couple of updates Knocked my Wireless -- OUT (atheros/madwifi/ath_pci)

[Roman Kyrylych]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 04:02, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> Listmates,
>
>        I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting this problem. For months and
> months, ever since I installed Arch, my Atheros wifi (through ath0) has always
> just worked right out of the box. No biggie. You setup your
> /etc/network.d/mywpa.conf and add your config to the NETWORKS entry and then
> each time I would turn on my box, up came the network.
>
>        That is, until the updates this past week or so. My config is still the same.
> The mywpa.conf file is:

[skipped]

>        What in the world could have changed in the past week or so that is
> presenting my wireless from being brought up at boot??

It is always useless when someone says something like "since recent updates"
because it does not tell _anything_ about what packages were upgraded.
Please post the relevant part of pacman.log otherwise all we can do is
just guessing.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)