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fluxme

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Registered: 2007-12-05

Posts: 36

[Solved] problems with wireless and keymap

Hey guys,

during the installation of the base system from the live cd, wireless worked fine. I could fine the wireless network and connect to it. No problems.
After I had finished installing tha base system, and booting from my hdd instead of the cd, my wireless stopped working. It appears to work, but it doesn't find any wireless networks.
The network is there. I can find it in Windows.

iwlist scan

returns only "No scan results".

Edit: I forgot to do the ifconfig wlan0 up... So my problem was that I couldn't find my desired wireless network.

By the way, what does kde use to manage the networksettings? I couldn't find anything about knetworkmanager.

Another problem I have is the norwegian keymap. Again, during the installation, everything was fine. Even after I booted from my hdd, the keymap was ok.
Then, I updated pacman, updated the kernel and performed a reboot. When I wanted to log in, the keymap was fucked.

In order to write root, I had to write ossk, øgam became siam, etc, etc

As a temporary fix I changed it back to the us layout which works fine. In kde, I changed to norwegian again and it works fine
however, in konsole it's still the us layout.

Thanks for the help guys

Edit: It finds wireless networks, but not the one I want to use. I can still find it in Windows, and it did find it prior to the installation of the base system.

AND Kde fixed the keymap issue in konsole too

Solution

By default iwl3945 is configured to only work with networks on channels 1-11. Higher ranges are not allowed in some parts of the world (US). In the EU however channels 12 and 13 are used quite common. To make iwl3945 scan for all channels, add "options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=EU" to /etc/modprobe.d/options. With "iwlist f" you can check which channels are allowed.

Set KEYMAP="no-latin1" in /etc/rc.conf

Last edited by fluxme (2009-02-28 17:03:25)