Problems with iwl4965 wireless

Mail Lists lists at sapience.com
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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