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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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