Aptitude upgrade - broken wireless, new device, no scan possible

[DingoBoy]

Lo'. I just did a aptitude upgrade, (not a dist-upgrade mind you), and rebooted. Now, however, my wireless is broken. I have all repositories, including Sid, but i never did a dist-upgrade.

My dist should still basically be stable (unless i got that whole thing wrong. Hope I Didn't). The upgrade installed more recent versions of Gnome, as well as the gnome network manager. It messed up my /etc/network/interfaces though (refer to the first code block).

Normally, eth0 is my wireless interface. wlan0_rename does not work after configuring with iwconfig either, and cannot iwconfig-scan at all. Nor can any other interface. I have never heard of a "tun" interface before now.

I am using the wl_apsta.o driver with the bcm43xx-006 fwcutter tool. This was installed prior to the upgrade. All modules appear to be loaded (there is a b43 with lsmod, all the appropriate firmware lies as it should in /lib/firmware/).

Sorry if I left out any mission-critical information.

Comradely, DingoBoy.

/etc/network/interfaces

# Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
# /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.

# The wireless network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp



allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0_rename  IEEE 802.11  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B   
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

tun       no wireless extensions.

Ifconfig
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0d:61:5e:db:31  
          inet addr:192.168.1.9  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20d:61ff:fe5e:db31/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3392 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2961 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:3584615 (3.4 MiB)  TX bytes:342340 (334.3 KiB)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0xe000 

tun       Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          inet6 addr: 2001:5c0:8fff:ffff::21/128 Scope:Global
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1280  Metric:1
          RX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 
          RX bytes:4976 (4.8 KiB)  TX bytes:4560 (4.4 KiB)