[TriLUG] Help w/ wireless setup

[Christopher Blackmon]

ckblackm at ckblackm-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device


----- Original Message ----
From: Cristóbal Palmer <cristobalpalmer at gmail.com>
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 1:42:40 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Help w/ wireless setup

Can you set properties of wlan0 with iwconfig?

Eg. what happens when you do this:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "your access point name"
sudo iwconfig key DEADBEEFEE # only need this if you use WEP
sudo dhclient wlan0

Can get a lease that way? Does it barf on the one of the first two?

Cheers,
CMP

On 7/12/07, Christopher Blackmon <ckblackm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ndiswrapper -l returns nothing... so I'm guessing that no drivers are being loaded by ndiswrapper.
>
> /var/log/messages shows:
> Jul 12 08:28:44 ckblackm-laptop kernel: [   43.692000] prism2pci_init: prism2_pci.o: 0.2.5 Loaded
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:43:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Help w/ wireless setup
>
> Are you trying to use ndiswrapper for your driver? ndiswrapper calls the wnic
> wlan whatever, while native drivers call it something else. If you don't want
> ndiswrapper, remove it from your /etc/modprobe tree (or whatever it's called
> in Ubuntu), and blacklist it in /etc/modprobe/blacklist or wherever.
>
> Look for telltale messages in /var/log/messages.
>
> Look for telltale messages in dmesg.
>
> There are some wifi troubleshooting tips here:
>
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200612/200612.htm
>
> HTH
>
> SteveT
>
> On Thursday 12 July 2007 09:11, Christopher Blackmon wrote:
> > I'm trying to get wireless working on my fujitsu p2120 laptop w/ xubuntu
> > installed (feisty), and am running into some difficulty. iwconfig says
> > wlan0 has no wireless extensions, and lshw shows wlan0 as being disabled.
> > Any ideas on how to fix this?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Christopher.
> >
> > ------
> > root at ckblackm-laptop:/home/ckblackm# lsmod | grep prism
> > prism2_pci             70784  0
> > p80211                 31884  1 prism2_pci
> >
> >
> > root at ckblackm-laptop:/home/ckblackm# iwconfig
> > lo        no wireless extensions.
> >
> > eth0      no wireless extensions.
> >
> > wlan0     no wireless extensions.
> >
> >         *-network:1 DISABLED
> >              description: Ethernet interface
> >              product: Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset
> >              vendor: Intersil Corporation
> >              physical id: 12
> >              bus info: pci at 00:12.0
> >              logical name: wlan0
> >              version: 01
> >              width: 32 bits
> >              clock: 33MHz
> >              capabilities: cap_list ethernet physical
> >              configuration: broadcast=yes driver=p80211_prism2_pci
> > driverversion=0.2.5 latency=64 link=no multicast=yes resources:
> > iomemory:e8017000-e8017fff irq:9
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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