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I get a "No wireless networks found."
strangely, wired networking works just fine through wicd, and I don't remember changing anything but I must have.
here is my rc.conf:
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="America/Toronto"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# MOD_AUTOLOAD: Allow autoloading of modules at boot and when needed
# MOD_BLACKLIST: Prevent udev from loading these modules
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
#
# NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
#
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(ac battery button processor thermal video cdrom agpgart intel-agp nvram i2c-i801 \
i2c-core evdev joydev pcspkr psmouse serio_raw led-class pci_hotplug shpchp thinkpad_acpi wmi \
rtc-cmos rtc-core rtc-lib nvidia output iTCO_vendor_support iTCO_wdt snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss \
snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-codec snd-hda-intel soundcore \
pata_acpi ata_generic scsi_mod ata_piix e1000e mac80211 rfkill pcmcia_core rsrc_nonstatic \
yenta_socket usbcore ehci-hcd uhci-hcd sd_mod sr_mod st ath5k !snd_pcsp)
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORKING
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
#
HOSTNAME="lapbox"
# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
#
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
# - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
# - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
#
# DHCP: Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
# Wireless: See network profiles below
#
eth0="eth0 192.168.1.122 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
INTERFACES=(!eth0 !ath0)
#above are disabled so that they work with wicd
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
#
gateway="default gw 192.168.1.1"
ROUTES=(gateway)
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up. These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
# - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
# - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
#
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
#
# This now requires the netcfg package
#
#NETWORKS=(main)
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal !network !netfs crond alsa wicd slim)
#### '!' network and netfs when you want to use wicd
any ideas are appreciated
Last edited by Cryptix_00 (2009-05-14 21:00:58)
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We're going to need more information, because wicd doesn't really care about your /etc/rc.conf.
What wireless card are you using? What driver are you using with it?
Are you in an area with *lots* of APs by any chance? Wicd uses iwlist scan to do its scanning. What errors does iwlist scan give?
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im using the atheros chipset (5212 i believe) on the thinkpad T61. there are plenty of AP's around here, i was just on my own home network 30 minutes ago before the last reboot and everything was fine.
this is what i get form iwlist:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
then i tried to do:
[root@lapbox leshow]# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
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i originally had interfaces=(!eth0 !ath0) in my rc.conf, and wicd worked with that. i recently realized that the wireless is 'wlan0' so i changed it to:
interfaces=(!eth0 !wlan0) neither of the configurations fix anything, nor a combination of both of them
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I've never seen that error before so I gave it a google.
Check out this link:
http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/linuxtips/
It's the first one on the page. That may be worth a shot.
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my bios doesnt have that option. however after some playing around with settings in rc.conf i have gotten it to show networks. the problem is now that it won't connect to any of them, when i click connect it says "putting interface down" and then doesn't connect
here is the new rc.conf (only sections that have been changed are posted)
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
#
# NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
#
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(ath5k ac battery button processor thermal video cdrom nvram i2c-i801 i$
thinkpad_acpi nvidia snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm$
snd-hda-codec snd-hda-intel soundcore usbcore !ath_pci !snd_pcsp)
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"
....
#
# DHCP: Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
# Wireless: See network profiles below
#
eth0="eth0 192.168.1.122 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
INTERFACES=(!eth0 !wlan0)
#above are disabled so that they work with wicd
...
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal !network !networkmanager !netfs !netcfg crond alsa wicd $
#### '!' network and netfs when you want to use wicd
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This may seem like a stupid question, but if your wireless thing has a switch, is it turned on?
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that was one of the first things i checked. i have a feeling the solution is something stupid though, i'm just not seeing it. the upsetting thing is that this is on a fresh install, but the same problem happened on my last install. however wicd was working fine for almost a year before it suddenly stopped working (probably after a pacman -Syu).
i'm going to try to go to an earlier version of wicd and see if that helps
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Try to comment lines containing
eth0="eth0 192.168.1.122 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
INTERFACES=(!eth0 !wlan0)
out in you /etc/rc.conf
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Try to comment lines containing
eth0="eth0 192.168.1.122 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" INTERFACES=(!eth0 !wlan0)
out in you /etc/rc.conf
i just tried this and it made no difference
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i've no idea how this worked but i switched the WPA_Supplicant Driver: drop-down from 'madwifi' to 'wext' and it now works.
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