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Greycloack

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Registered: 2004-03-05

Posts: 166

Can't turn on the WiFi

Hi, I don't usually use my WiFi but I decided to give it a shot. I have an ipw2100 card, model is loaded and runing.

I'm using KDE now so I tried using the Kwifimanager. It said my radio is off and tried to turn it on by doing

iwconfig eth1 txpower on

But failed.

When I tried to do the same manually as root I got:

Error for wireless request "Set Tx Power" (8B26) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.

the output of iwconfig is :

lo        no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      unassociated  ESSID:"default"  Nickname:"ipw2100"
          Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate=0 kb/s   Tx-Power:off
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth2      no wireless extensions.

Anyone knows how can I turn it on?

Thanks,
Grey

Panu

Member

From: UK

Registered: 2005-10-09

Posts: 27

Re: Can't turn on the WiFi

Hi, I don't usually use my WiFi but I decided to give it a shot. I have an ipw2100 card, model is loaded and runing.

I'm using KDE now so I tried using the Kwifimanager. It said my radio is off
Anyone knows how can I turn it on?

Hi,

This could be a laptop specific issue. You might need an rfswitch, see here

http://rfswitch.sourceforge.net/?page=laptop_matrix

For example, in my case, I needed the module fsam7400 for my Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo that has ipw2200.

phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: Can't turn on the WiFi

txpower won't turn the actual device on - txpower is used for the actual power of the signal, not the device - like Panu said, you may need rfswitch

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