> > I just remembered, too, that when I bought the Sony a few months ago I > installed Xubuntu-11.10 on it. When the wireless networking didn't work I > replaced that distribution with Slackware. > > So, two distributions, two wireless network managers, ... no wlan0 > working. >
> If you can run "iwlist scan" and see a list of WAPs the radio is working. When we tested at the coffee shop in Gresham, wlan0 was getting an ip addr. So the hardware is fine. But there is some sort of software or interplay of software problem as I suggested. Can you connect to an "open" WAP and get out to the internet? The reason you couldn't get to the internet from the coffee shop is because you couldn't connect to the wifi captive portal page to accept the T&C page because there was a routing conflict between eth0 and wlan0. We need to isolate and test basic wifi functionality. Until you do this, we won't know what truly works and what doesn't. Step 1. Remove the static ip config for eth0 Step 2: Test wifi connectivity and WLAN access to an WAP w/o a t&c captive portal toi the internet via command line. This removes any software issues with network management apps. If fact, you can do wireless config setup and wired setup in rc.inet1.conf. http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:network _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
