[TriLUG] Help w/ wireless setup

[Christopher Blackmon]

ckblackm at ckblackm-laptop:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:00:C1:2B:4D  
          inet addr:192.168.0.102  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:ff:fec1:2b4d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3036 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1605 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2227825 (2.1 MiB)  TX bytes:258169 (252.1 KiB)
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x8800 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:300 (300.0 b)  TX bytes:300 (300.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00  
          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:9 Memory:dfa0a000-dfa0b000 

If I don't use the -a flag for ifconfig... wlan0 doesn't show up.

thanks,
Christopher.

----- Original Message ----
From: Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net>
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 12:17:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Help w/ wireless setup

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Christopher Blackmon wrote:

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


>>> root at ckblackm-laptop:/home/ckblackm# iwconfig
>>> lo        no wireless extensions.
>>>
>>> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>>>
>>> wlan0     no wireless extensions.

this doesn't make sense: ifconfig can't see it but iwconfig 
does see it. what devices does ifconfig see?

Joe

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