problem scanning wifi lans
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote:
I've found that manually disabling the wifi card and restarting it with the
power button of the laptop allows me to scan for a network. It seems that the
card is not rightly initialized. Any clue about how to investigate?
Thanks,
Luca
On Monday 02 November 2009 11:55:38 am Luca Ferrari's cat walking on the
keyboard wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've got a curios problem: when using the wifi from the network manager
> *applet the card works fine, but if I try to run it from the command line I
> *can neither do a normal scan:
>
> root@fluca-laptop:~# lspci | grep Wi
> 05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
> root@fluca-laptop:~# iwlist scan
> lo * * * *Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
> eth0 * * *Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
> wmaster0 *Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
> wlan0 * * No scan results
>
> pan0 * * *Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
>
> No scan results for wlan0 but the applet shows me all the APs in the
> neighbourhood...any idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>
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