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Makaha
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<solved>Wifi was working now not at all since update

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I had LM Mate Maya working quite well using wifi, for some time, on my old desktop. The last time I logged on, about a week ago via wifi an update ran, and the next time I started up the PC it's as though my wifi pci card now can't run. The system knows it exists, using lspci. Various tools, including inxi, say my "rt61pci is not active". How do I make it active again?

ps: if I put my LiveCD back in and run it, the wifi works perfectly.

Latest news: In terminal, if I run "sudo modprobe rt61pci" the wifi activates immediately, but when I reboot I have to run this command again. Somehow wifi has been de-activated by default????

The code below is before I activate it with the above command.

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gary@gary-MS-6309 ~ $ inxi -Nn
Network:   Card-1: Ralink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g 
           IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
           Card-2: National Semiconductor DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller driver: natsemi 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:09:5b:e2:af:bf
gary@gary-MS-6309 ~ $ 

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gary@gary-MS-6309 ~ $ mintwifi
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g
      ==> PCI ID = 1814:0302
-------------------------
* II. querying ndiswrapper...
-------------------------
* III. querying iwconfig...
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:5b:e2:af:bf  
          inet addr:192.168.0.12  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fee2:afbf/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6008 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5788 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:5695841 (5.6 MB)  TX bytes:759443 (759.4 KB)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0x2000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:11605 (11.6 KB)  TX bytes:11605 (11.6 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
[sudo] password for gary: 
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server:		192.168.0.1
Address:	192.168.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.237.200
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.237.197
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.237.195
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.237.194
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.237.206
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.237.196
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.237.199
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.237.198
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.237.201
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.237.192
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.237.193

gary@gary-MS-6309 ~ $ 
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Makaha
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Re: Wifi was working now not at all since update

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Poking around in the syslog file I found the following:

May 29 00:15:24 gary-MS-6309 kernel: [ 640.189397] rt61pci 0000:00:11.0: can't find IRQ for PCI INT A; probably buggy MP table

and references such as:

May 29 00:15:24 gary-MS-6309 kernel: [ 640.309512] Registered led device: rt61pci-phy0::radio
May 29 00:15:24 gary-MS-6309 kernel: [ 640.309718] Registered led device: rt61pci-phy0::assoc
May 29 00:15:24 gary-MS-6309 NetworkManager[545]: <info> (wlan0): using nl80211 for WiFi device control
May 29 00:15:24 gary-MS-6309 NetworkManager[545]: <warn> (wlan0): driver supports Access Point (AP) mode
May 29 00:15:24 gary-MS-6309 NetworkManager[545]: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'rt61pci' ifindex: 3)
May 29 00:15:24 gary-MS-6309 NetworkManager[545]: <info> (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
May 29 00:15:24 gary-MS-6309 NetworkManager[545]: <info> (wlan0): now managed
May 29 00:15:24 gary-MS-6309 NetworkManager[545]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2]
May 29 00:15:24 gary-MS-6309 NetworkManager[545]: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device.
May 29 00:15:24 gary-MS-6309 kernel: [ 640.666111] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
May 29 00:15:24 gary-MS-6309 NetworkManager[545]: <info> (wlan0): preparing device.
May 29 00:15:24 gary-MS-6309 NetworkManager[545]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason 'managed') [2]
May 29 00:15:24 gary-MS-6309 kernel: [ 640.671335] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
............

I assume it's telling me it can't activate rt61pci for some reason, yet I can manually activate it usinf modprobe later.
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Re: Wifi was working now not at all since update

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Upgraded to LM Mate 17 and the problem went away (for now at least).
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