Problems with wireless

Andrew Robinson awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com
Tue Nov 14 17:22:36 UTC 2006


Phil Meyer wrote:
> Andrew Robinson wrote:
> 
>> I had wireless working well with ndiswrapper on FC4 on my laptop. I 
>> installed FC6 on other partitions, made an unsuccessful attempt to 
>> configure wireless with BCM43xx. When I rebooted into FC4, wireless 
>> had stopped working. I've tried unloading and reloading the module, 
>> deleting and reinstalling the driver. Nothing has seemed to work. One 
>> thing I find curious and I have illustrated below, I cannot change 
>> parameters with iwconfig. Can someone offer insight into what I might 
>> have done to screw up my wireless and what I can do to fix it? (The 
>> wireless network is working because my wife's PowerBook is working fine.)
> 
> 
> Been there done that.
> 
> Most common problem is that somehow the radio is turned off now.
> Laptops with wireless have a function key, usually a different color.   
> While NOT in X windows (like during boot up) press FN/F2 or whatever 
> function key has the radio icon on it to enable the radio.  That key 
> combo is a toggle.
> 

Bingo! Found the key, toggled it, and wireless amazingly returned! Thanks!

Andrew




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