Sam Geeraerts wrote: > Karl Goetz schreef: >> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:52:12 -0500 >> Quiliro Ordóñez <quil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 2010/1/29 Karl Goetz <k...@kgoetz.id.au>: >>>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:40:46 -0500 >>>> Quiliro Ordóñez <quil...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I can't use my wireless. The module rtl8187b is loaded and I can >>>>> see wlan0 but it does not see any network with scan on iwlist. >>> >>>> Whats changed recently? check dmesg, I noticed my wifi was getting >>>> renamed to wlan1 (reason unknown). >>> It's a brand new installation from >>> http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS >> >> dmesg and syslog give no clues? > > I also don't have wifi on my fresh install. I do have it on my old > install with the same kernel (.32.4). Module rtl8187b shows up in lsmod > output of both, but "Used by" count is 0 in the fresh install and 2 in > the old install. wlan0 shows up in both 'iwconfig' and 'ifconfig -a', so > it hasn't been renamed. Networkmanager doesn't list any wireless > connections. 'iwlist wlan0 scan' (as root) says "wlan0 Failed to read > scan data : Operation not permitted". The wifi LED is on all the time. > Pressing Fn+F5 doesn't change anything. dmesg shows a few of these: > > rtl8187: rtl8187_open process failed because radio off > > syslog doesn't show anything strange.
You can also try (as root): 1. Compile and install the "rfkill" program, and then do the command that unsomethings everything (sorry, don't have a yeeloong atm, soon...) rfkill needs to be in gns repo; I'll go see/open a bug... 2. echo 1 > /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0/state -- Daniel JB Clark | http://pobox.com/~dclark _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users