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From: Elmar Hinz <oss.elmar@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:19:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=jJBzdb80scXwpoKRze02JiQyk=SZXO336Cp7t@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C69E9A3.6020801@gmail.com>

> When I got this to work, I thought I was home free despite the "kludgy"
> way of getting wireless working.  However, I rebooted and now, when I
> type iwlist wlan0 scan I get told that scanning is not supported.  Yes,
> I have iwl3945-ucode installed and yes, it was recompiled after the
> kernel was rebuilt.
>

Another hint:

emerge rfkill

rfkill list

It will show you some state of the module, if the module is "hard blocked".
That can be a reason for scanning not supported, a hint, that the card is
not turned on at all.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-17 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-17  1:45 [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless CJoeB
2010-08-17  1:55 ` Adam Carter
2010-08-17 10:55   ` Jake Moe
2010-08-17 23:04     ` CJoeB
2010-08-18  1:12       ` Jake Moe
2010-08-18  2:56         ` CJoeB
2010-08-18 18:50           ` Elmar Hinz
2010-08-18 21:47           ` Jake Moe
2010-08-20 15:44           ` Mick
2010-08-17  8:36 ` David Abbott
2010-08-17 11:05   ` Elmar Hinz
2010-08-17 22:49   ` CJoeB
2010-08-20  8:24     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-20 12:11       ` Elmar Hinz
2010-08-17 11:11 ` Elmar Hinz
2010-08-17 11:55   ` Adam Carter
2010-08-17 16:09     ` Elmar Hinz
2010-08-17 11:19 ` Elmar Hinz [this message]

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