Comment 154 for bug 182716

Larry,

The behavior is pretty weird. I explain:

1) Wrote the old SPROM back while the card was connected. Everything still worked fine. Through knetworkmanager I disabled/enabled wireless and then it refused to connect again. *BUT* if I do a "ifconfig wlan0 down; ifconfig wlan0 up", then, it connects again.

2) Wrote the new SPROM while the card was connected, and everything was fine. Then exactly same behavior.

3) Wrote the first set back to SPROM and same as above.

I all cases connectivity remains when changing the SPROM until I disable/enable the wireless through KNetworkmanager, when it's lost. From here, in some cases I regain connectivity by disabling/enabling wireless through knetworkmanager, or by using ifconfig (not sure if there's any difference, but that's what happen).

Best thing, I can manage to have the wireless working playing with the interface up/down.
Worst thing, I cannot manage to have the wireless auto-"up and running" right after reboot (which is quite bad for my 4 years old daughter when trying to do onlime gaming :-))

Ideas?

k