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aaron.kilbride

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 65

networkmanager will not recognize wireless card

so when i click on the network manager icon on the start bar... i cannot open wireless or wired lan
i can however use ethernet wonderfully... but i am on a laptop so this is very ineffective.
when i try to connect with

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid "myessid"
dhcpcd wlan0

i get a dhcp timeout error

and when i type
iwlist wlan0 scan

i get devide does not support scanning or device is busy

any ideas to point me in the right direction?

aaron.kilbride

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 65

Re: networkmanager will not recognize wireless card

so i keep tryin to get my wireless to work.
i uninstalled networkmanager and tried wicd.
i installed and run the daemon it shows no wireless networks available
and yet here i am on vista on the same computer connected to an unsecured network.
any ideas?
is there any log file or output i can post that would help?

drtoki

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Registered: 2009-07-22

Posts: 95

Re: networkmanager will not recognize wireless card

what card do you have? Do you have the correct drivers/firmware? Are your modules being detected and loaded correctly?

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

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Re: networkmanager will not recognize wireless card

Hello aaron.kilbride!

Is the wlan0 in your ifconfig output ? Are you beyond router, if yes, can you reach that ?

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