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hagbard23

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Registered: 2011-11-20

Posts: 1

Lenovo ThinkPad X121e Wireless issue

Hey folks!
Today, I spent the entire day trying to install Arch on my Lenovo ThinkPad X121e. By now, it somehow works... However, I can only access the internet using ethernet. I tried to work it out by reading the wiki, but it just wont work. Therefore I hope that there's somebody out there, who has had similar issues... Here' some data:

# ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 74:e5:0b:19:a0:44 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether e8:9a:8f:97:5c:c2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.178.35/24 brd 192.168.178.255 scope global eth0
    inet6 fe80::ea9a:8fff:fe97:5cc2/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.
wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any 
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=off   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
eth0      no wireless extensions.

# iwlist ath0 scan
ath0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

I guess, my wireless card has not been detected yet.

Thanks in advance
hagbard23

Last edited by hagbard23 (2011-11-20 16:51:48)

Strike0

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 1,429

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad X121e Wireless issue

It does not look too bad really. You mixed the iwlist command though, try

iwlist wlan0 scan

If that shows your Wifi router, you can continue with the connection from the wiki.
Also at that point (when your card shows the networks), you should decide which tool you want to use to handle the connections (manual, netcfg, networkmanager, wicd) - if you have not done so already.
Next time, please post long output with code tags to make it more readable. Thank you.
EDIT: I still see there is a wiki page for a similar model: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Le … kPad_X120e
Maybe that will help you a bit with the further quirks (not the graphics or wifi).

Last edited by Strike0 (2011-11-20 18:43:04)