Hello there guys.

I have just upgrade to hardy heron and i am not able to find my wireless card on my toshiba laptop. The file /etc/network/interfaces is just the same as the one i had in gutsy, but the wireless card is not found anywhere. I tried lspci and the card is there. But when typing ifconfig, i can only see the loop back and ethernet 0 interfaces. I know the wpasupplicant software is installed because i tried installing it again and apt said that it was already the latest version. I am attempting to install the madwifi drivers, but i can't seem to find the right source to place in sources.list so that apt can find the drivers. The error message specifies i should install the contrib and non-free archives. Which are these???

How do i get my interface back in hardy?

Here are some command outputs if you need them.

sudo iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor

have you tried installing the madwifi drivers? http://www.madwifi.org/

Yeah, i just installed the packege with make and make install, and it was inmediately found. Kinda weird went the rest of the steps, but bottom line is, it now works.

Thanks.

lol, upgrades can be funny like that

You probably have an idea, but check this out!!! When choosing either ubuntu 8.04 or ubuntu 8.04 recovery mode, i can only boot it normally to KDE after selecting recovery mode and then choosing from the menu to boot normally. I just upgraded to kernel 2.6.24-17, to see if can boot normally.

I'll have to open another thread for this issue, i haven't been able to find the cause of this weird behaviour.

hmm, it doesnt sound like a kernel issue, i'd need to know what the output is as you boot, you'd need to remove the 'quiet' boot command from the boot commands