Hi everyone,
I patched Backtrack 5 when the you have N updates message appear on my screen and after a reboot my wlan0 device disappeared.
When i execute
lspci -vnn |grep -i net
i get the following response which tells me that my wlan0 hardware is still alive [4e4 : 4727]
Code:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet [1969:2062] (rev c1)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
any ideas? When i found a solution i will share it here...
Edit: hmm i just remember that i run the
Code:
iwconfig wlan0 txpower auto
command .. maybe that caused the problem ?
and when i run
Code:
/etc/init.d/networking
i see "Failed to bring up wlan0" as last line
edit2:
okay i noticed that i can boot the old version of BT5 from the boot menu and Voila! there is a wlan0 device 
here some research..
LSMOD (working system) http://pastebin.com/DNvyy1Ez
LSMOD (after update - bugged) http://pastebin.com/GjyxLney
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
output (working system) http://pastebin.com/aF5q1X1W
output (after update - bugged) http://pastebin.com/9hEgVRdX
how can i load
Code:
Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: brcm80211
can it has todo somthing with this?:
http://redmine.backtrack-linux.org:8080/issues/201