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K6MLE
April 8th, 2010, 02:38 AM
I'm running an Acer Aspire 4520 and have upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 from 9.04. Since a solution to the wireless problem has been evading me, I'd like to know if I can roll this back to 9.04 without wiping the HD and starting from scratch?

hansdown
April 8th, 2010, 02:51 AM
Hi K6MLE.

As far as I know, the only way to go back, is a fresh install.

kooia
April 8th, 2010, 04:28 AM
What is your wireless problem? Make sure you aren't closing the place where you type in the password at the beginning.

maybe you can try putting a 9.04 ISO CD in... like an upgrade, but not.

K6MLE
April 8th, 2010, 04:47 PM
Here's the output from iwconfig:

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

wifi0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"K6MLE" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:16:B6:E4:AC:AD
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-96 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:1386 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Yet when I run wicd, it tells me no wireless networks found! This has me more than just a little baffled.

Depending upon the release date of 10.1, I might just limp along with a wired connection on this laptop until then, otherwise, it's the old wipe-it-out-and-start-over routine!

Thanks for the advice.