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OK, that seems to get us a little closer. Now the output of "iwlist |
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scan" is: |
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wlan0 No scan results |
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That's a result that makes intuitive sense, at least, when there are no |
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access points around. However, I get the same result when I parked the |
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car next to a wireless-equipped restaurant during my lunch hour, where I |
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would have expected to see the access point if not connect to it. |
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Is there more information I can provide on my configuration that will |
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help diagnose this? |
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Ryan Dagey wrote: |
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> I had the same problem with my wireless card. Try "ifconfig wlan0 up" |
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> before your /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start |
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> I've just reinstalled Gentoo on my laptop, which seemed like a good idea |
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> at the time. Now I can't get the wireless card to see any access |
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> points, though it worked before. I could use some help from a wireless |
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> guru, or from somebody who has a similar configuration working. |
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> (hoary old) Compaq Armada 7800 |
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> Netgear PCMCIA wireless card, MA521 (RealTek 8190 chipset) |
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> Gentoo Linux from 2005.1 liveCD |
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> kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 |
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> wireless-tools version 27 |
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> rtl8180 version 0.21-r1 |
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> Modules r8180, ieee80211_r8180, ieee80211_crypt_r8180 are all loaded. |
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> When I run "/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start" the output is: |
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> * Starting wlan0 |
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> * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 |
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> * no access points found |
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> * Couldn't find any access points on wlan0 |
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> * Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 |
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> I've attempted this in several locations where I know there are access |
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> points (e.g. outside a restaurant that advertises wireless access), so |
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> I'm convinced the problem is on the laptop rather than on the access |
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> points I tried to use. I could be wrong about that I suppose. I don't |
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> have my own access point to experiment with. |
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> I've saved all files from /etc before I did the reinstall, so if it |
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> would help to know about an old version of /etc/whatever, I do have that |
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> available. |
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> Any clues would be appreciated. |
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> Don Doumakes |
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> The output of iwconfig is: |
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> lo no wireless extensions. |
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> wlan0 IEEE 802.11b Mode:Auto Frequency:2.462 GHz |
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> Access Point: CA:BF:38:95:CA:BF Bit Rate=11 Mb/s |
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> Retry:on Fragment thr:off |
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> Encryption key:off |
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> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 |
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> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 |
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> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 |
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> eth0 no wireless extensions. |
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