From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EFbiQ-0000Qb-S6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:10:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8EI57YG026632; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:05:07 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8EI56CB006581 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:05:06 GMT Received: from debs.pinko.net ([204.96.181.68]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EFbhg-0000Hf-1B for gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:09:52 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (debs.pinko.net [204.96.181.68]) by debs.pinko.net (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8EIAPPS010898 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:10:27 -0500 Message-ID: <4328676C.3000408@loganet.net> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:09:48 -0500 From: Don Doumakes User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050909) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Compaq laptop pcmcia wireless network setup X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 97c7cd12-19e4-4640-9193-05eef04aac0e X-Archives-Hash: c07056884b23a47899dfaa45880bd9a0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Why sign? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature#Uses Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDKGdr4z/oWR9zVv0RAuImAJ4s/Cl9fSrqC5vWglpEg+v6YEPDZgCdEc0+ CRdAmK66xeFIgnWHFqgJA7o= =LSsE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list