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i've so far been unable to get the built-in wireless card to work on my new (used) ibm t41, running ubuntu gutsy. the built in wired eth0 works fine. lshw -C network shows the wireless card as being wifi0 using driver ath-pci. lsmod shows ath-pci is installed. though lshw claims that wifi0 is the wireless device, iwconfig says it isn't. iwlist wifi0 scan gives an error, whereas iwlist ath0 scan shows all the neighborhood nodes. so i configured ath0 as follows: iwconfig ath0 essid moylan-net key s:(passwd) ap 00:09:5B:23:8A:26 ifconfig ath0 192.168.0.6 broadcast 192.168.0.255 up route add default gw 192.168.0.1 iwconfig shows: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wifi0 no wireless extensions. irda0 no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"moylan-net" Nickname:"" Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: 00:09:5B:23:8A:26 Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:14 dBm Sensitivity=1/1 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-96 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm Rx invalid nwid:306293 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 (this signal level is spooky, because iwlist scan shows it at -39dBm.) ifconfig shows: ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:4E:46:3B:76 inet addr:192.168.0.6 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::205:4eff:fe46:3b76/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:3497 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3497 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:152661 (149.0 KB) TX bytes:152661 (149.0 KB) and route shows: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 ath0 default netgear.localdo 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ath0 still, something's missing. any suggestions are welcome. btw, i fiddled ad nauseum with the ubuntu network gui and got nowhere. dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-232-2360 (tel) 810-454-1823 (fax) [hidden email] www.moylan.info [death to html bloat!] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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