Problems with iwl4965 wireless
Mail Lists
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Sat May 24 01:40:17 UTC 2008
Mail Lists wrote:
> Ok after much experimentation - I now have the magic recipe to
> connect which seems to work.
>
> (i) Set up appropriate configs (ie populate
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg*
>
> (ii) ifup wlan0 ; ifdown wlan0
>
> (iii) modprobe -r iwl4965
> (iv) turn radio off with hardware switch
> (v) turn on radio
Doh me. Wrong order
(vi) iwlist wlan0 scan
This will fail - repeat - it may still not see the AP that is
close - repeat until you see the AP picked up in the scan.
If you cannot see the AP - go back to (iii)
> (vii) iwconfig wlan0 channel 11
> Adjust to channle of close AP
> (viii) killall dhclient
> (ix) ifup wlan0
>
> (x) iwconfig wlan0
> to confirm it has the correct AP
>
> 10 easy steps ... and it works ... yay!
>
> good luck.
>
> (There may be a smaller set but this does work)
>
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