WIFI connection disappeared

Hi there,

I'm a newbie to Linux and can't seem to figure out how to restore the wifi connection of my AAO. Was working fine for the first 2 weeks that i've got it and then out of the blues, the wifi disappeared. I tried to open the network connections by clicking on the icon, nothing happens. I haven't upgraded anything since i bought it besides installing skype and a pdf converter. The switch seems to work ok, it turns on and off but nothing else happens.

I looked around for hours but haven't found the solution. I've run a couple of status functions as suggested, here's what comes up.

Has someone the solution to this issue??


[user@localhost ~]$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
Retryff RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=161/162 Noise level=161/161
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

[user@localhost ~]$ ifconfig
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:69:19:23:50
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:68:B5:96:1C
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xa000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8594 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8594 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:648932 (633.7 KiB) TX bytes:648932 (633.7 KiB)

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-22-69-19-23-50-38-AF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:552 (552.0 b)
Interrupt:18 Memory:e06e0000-e06f0000

[user@localhost ~]$ ifconfig
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:69:19:23:50
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:68:B5:96:1C
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xa000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8594 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8594 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:648932 (633.7 KiB) TX bytes:648932 (633.7 KiB)

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-22-69-19-23-50-38-AF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:552 (552.0 b)
Interrupt:18 Memory:e06e0000-e06f0000