[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#503101: Bug#503101: cryptsetup: Cryptsetup kills wireless

[Jonas Meurer]

Hey Michael,

On 22/10/2008 Michael Pobega wrote:
> When I installed cryptsetup on my Eee PC (using debian-eeepc and the
> madwifi drivers) and rebooted, my wireless would not work. dmesg | tail
> would just say "Wireless off" everytime I turned it back on with Fn+2.
> After recovering /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.bak the wireless works again.
> 
> I'm not exactly sure what about it killed it, but whatever cryptsetup
> appended to my initrd killed my wireless.

I doubt that cryptsetup really stops your wireless from working.
Instead, something else might have changed since you last recreated the
initramfs file that causes this bug.

What happens if you simply remove cryptsetup and regenerate the
initramfs file afterwards?

Is it possible to reproduce the bug over and over again (i.e: install
cryptsetup - system is broken. remove cryptsetup - system works. install
cryptsetup - system is broken. remove cryptsetup ...)

greetings,
 jonas
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