From: Don Doumakes <doumakes@loganet.net>
To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Compaq laptop pcmcia wireless network setup
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:09:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4328676C.3000408@loganet.net> (raw)
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I've just reinstalled Gentoo on my laptop, which seemed like a good idea
at the time. Now I can't get the wireless card to see any access
points, though it worked before. I could use some help from a wireless
guru, or from somebody who has a similar configuration working.
(hoary old) Compaq Armada 7800
Netgear PCMCIA wireless card, MA521 (RealTek 8190 chipset)
Gentoo Linux from 2005.1 liveCD
kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r6
wireless-tools version 27
rtl8180 version 0.21-r1
Modules r8180, ieee80211_r8180, ieee80211_crypt_r8180 are all loaded.
When I run "/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start" the output is:
* Starting wlan0
* Configuring wireless network for wlan0
* no access points found
* Couldn't find any access points on wlan0
* Failed to configure wireless for wlan0
I've attempted this in several locations where I know there are access
points (e.g. outside a restaurant that advertises wireless access), so
I'm convinced the problem is on the laptop rather than on the access
points I tried to use. I could be wrong about that I suppose. I don't
have my own access point to experiment with.
I've saved all files from /etc before I did the reinstall, so if it
would help to know about an old version of /etc/whatever, I do have that
available.
Any clues would be appreciated.
Don Doumakes
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The output of iwconfig is:
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b Mode:Auto Frequency:2.462 GHz
Access Point: CA:BF:38:95:CA:BF Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
Retry:on Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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2005-09-14 18:09 Don Doumakes [this message]
2005-09-15 11:28 ` [gentoo-laptop] Compaq laptop pcmcia wireless network setup Jordi Molina
2005-09-16 20:04 ` Don Doumakes
2005-09-19 13:04 ` Ryan Dagey
2005-09-20 18:49 ` Don Doumakes
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