No eth1 wireless

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Tue May 15 04:23:03 UTC 2007


On 14/05/07, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:
> "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > [root at localhost ~]# iwlist eth1 scan
> > eth1      No scan results
> >
> The above isn't good news.  I'd guess that the above means that the
> wireless driver isn't working.  My laptop gives me a list of APs as long
> as they are there to be found (even when the ESSID isn't being broadcast).

Not good.

> > However, there is something there:
> >
> > [root at localhost ~]# iwconfig eth1
> > eth1      unassociated  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
> >           Mode:Managed  Frequency=nan kHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
> >           Bit Rate=0 kb/s   Tx-Power:16 dBm
> >           Retry limit:15   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
> >           Encryption key:off
> >           Power Management: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:130   Missed beacon:0
> I think you'll see this as long as the driver loads.  Everything that's
> being reported indicates that the driver isn't getting anything from the
> radio: no packets, no signal quality, etc.  The "invalid misc" is
> interesting since it's the only non-zero value.
>
> I kind of jumped into the middle of this thread.  What does lspci say is
> your wireless card?  Are you using a native driver or ndiswrapper?
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>

Thanks, I'm using the native driver. Here's lspci:

[root at localhost ~]# lspci
--snip--
0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Network Connection (rev 02)

Dotan Cohen

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