Resize partition broke wireless

Title says all.  I was running out of room on my home partition for linux so I resized it taking a chunk of the unused space on my windows boot to add to my linux partition.  The operation went without a hitch.  The computer boots both OSes without a problem and linux doesnt have any errors during boot.  Doing an lsmod shows my wireless drivers (brcmsmac) and if I reload the drivers and do an ifconfig wlan0 down ifconfig wlan0 up and restart the wicd daemon as well it doesn't seem to help.  It doesn't seem broken but when I scan for networks nothing shows up, yet if I reboot into backtrack or into windows and scan I can see networks (backtrack uses wicd as well but some strange reason the networks only show up occasionally on backtrack where as on Arch they don't show up at all, and on windows they show up just fine).  Its a bit confusing to me and I'm not sure what got broken, if anything.  I can try plugging into lan when I get the chance and do an syu and hope that fixes some things possibly.
Thoughts are appreciated

Maybe just a fluke I guess, since it works fine now. Also, always make sure that darn hardware switch usually on the front or bottom of the laptop isn't switched off. Those switches have given me my fair share of pain before thinking wireless cards were broken and whatnot

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    gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
    gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 234441647
          start       size            index       contents
              0          1                             MBR
              1          1                             Pri GPT header
              2         32                            Pri GPT table
             34          6        
             40     409600           1            GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
         409640  153240016      2            GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
      153649656    1269544     3            GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
      154919200   17628896        
      172548096   61892608    4            GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
      234440704        911        
      234441615         32                       Sec GPT table
      234441647          1                        Sec GPT header
    sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
    Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 14593/255/63 [234441648 sectors]Signature: 0xAA55
             Starting       Ending
    #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
    1: EE    0   0   2 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  172548095] <Unknown ID>
    *2: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 172548096 -   61892608] HPFS/QNX/AUX
    3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     
    4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused  
    sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
    GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.7
    Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
    partition table automatically reloaded!
    Partition table scan:
      MBR: hybrid
      BSD: not present
      APM: not present
      GPT: present
    Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
    Command (? for help): r
    Recovery/transformation command (? for help): h
    WARNING! Hybrid MBRs are flaky and dangerous! If you decide not to use one,
    just hit the Enter key at the below prompt and your MBR partition table will
    be untouched.
    Type from one to three GPT partition numbers, separated by spaces, to be
    added to the hybrid MBR, in sequence: 4
    Place EFI GPT (0xEE) partition first in MBR (good for GRUB)? (Y/N): y
    Creating entry for GPT partition #4 (MBR partition #2)
    Enter an MBR hex code (default 07):
    Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): y
    Unused partition space(s) found. Use one to protect more partitions? (Y/N): n
    Recovery/transformation command (? for help): o
    Disk size is 234441648 sectors (111.8 GiB)
    MBR disk identifier: "DELETED INFO"
    MBR partitions:
    Number  Boot  Start Sector   End Sector   Status      Code
       1                               1    172548095   primary     0xEE
       2           *     172548096    234440703   primary     0x07
    Recovery/transformation command (? for help): w
    Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING
    PARTITIONS!!
    Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y
    OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/disk2.
    Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
    partition table automatically reloaded!
    Warning: The kernel may continue to use old or deleted partitions.
    You should reboot or remove the drive.
    The operation has completed successfully.

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