Wireless issues on IBM/Lenovo T61 (iwl4965)

Shardz · 2009-01-16 08:18:09

Howdy.

I just got this laptop and installed Arch a few days ago. Since then, I haven't gotten wireless to work at all. I've got the necessary 'iwlwifi-4965-ucode' package installed, and the module loaded at boot. However, I get these error messages:

# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
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

I had it working at one point (just once, strangely; "iwlist wlan0 scan" worked and showed the local networks here, I just couldn't get them running with DHCP, which is another issue I'll cross when I get to it), but it's gone back to what it was doing before (sadly, I didn't expect it to suddenly /stop/ working, so I never took not of what changed, if anything. I had this same exact problem on Gentoo.

I can naturally post more information/output if required. I'm just not really sure what on earth is /wrong/ with it, so I'm not sure where to begin. Thus turning here for help.

NeoXP · 2009-01-16 08:23:19

Looks familiair, I solved my problems with Wifi by installing wicd. There is a great tutorial about it in the wiki:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd

Shardz · 2009-01-16 08:28:07

Sadly, wicd just says "No wireless networks found."

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#1 2009-01-16 08:18:09

Wireless issues on IBM/Lenovo T61 (iwl4965)

#2 2009-01-16 08:23:19

Re: Wireless issues on IBM/Lenovo T61 (iwl4965)

#3 2009-01-16 08:28:07

Re: Wireless issues on IBM/Lenovo T61 (iwl4965)

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