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Wyrm88

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Registered: 2010-05-05

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[SOLVED]Wireless detected, no scan results - openbox, toshiba a300

Hi. I've installed Arch on my Toshiba A300-1GT laptop, and managed to get everything working (sound, touchpad, mouse etc.), everything except wireless. I am following the guide at the wiki, and when i type ifconfig, eth0, wlan0 and lo are shown, that part is ok. But, when I try to scan for connections, it says that it doesn't find any results. The wifi switch is on.
Wireless card is Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100.

P.S.:how can i copy output from terminal (xterm)?

Last edited by Wyrm88 (2010-05-10 13:21:16)

Wyrm88

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Registered: 2010-05-05

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Re: [SOLVED]Wireless detected, no scan results - openbox, toshiba a300

I found this link, I think it might be a solution. I tried enabling "wifi on"in BIOS but no changes. I'm trying (according to the posted link) activate wifi over the keyboard, but that is a fnfx key. I've found a suitable package on aur, and was able to make a .pkg.tar.gz file, but the odd thing is that it isn't in the ~/builds folder at all :S. The process in the terminal states that the file was created succesfully.

Would appreciate any feedback, thx.

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

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Re: [SOLVED]Wireless detected, no scan results - openbox, toshiba a300

for the wifi problem, try rfkill (soft/un/blocking wlan hardware)

Wyrm88

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Registered: 2010-05-05

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Re: [SOLVED]Wireless detected, no scan results - openbox, toshiba a300

for the wifi problem, try rfkill (soft/un/blocking wlan hardware)

Hm, not quite sure about what I have to do... I installed it, ran it, when I switch off manually the wifi, the soft blocked line says "no", the hardware one "yes". After I switch it on both are "no".

hokasch

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Re: [SOLVED]Wireless detected, no scan results - openbox, toshiba a300

ah sorry, my bad. rfkill can't unblock hardlock so it won't do any good in your case. I had a similar problem, but it was soft locked on boot.

the package must be in the folder you run makepkg from.

Wyrm88

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Re: [SOLVED]Wireless detected, no scan results - openbox, toshiba a300

I managed to install fnfx (yaourt this time) but no still no progress. Actually that also probably wouldn't help because it's not soft blocked .
Here's some output:

[nbabic@Arch_nbabic ~]$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:33:5A:36:2B  
          inet addr:192.168.1.84  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21e:33ff:fe5a:362b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:387 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:418 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:167678 (163.7 Kb)  TX bytes:76397 (74.6 Kb)
          Interrupt:29 Base address:0x6000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:100 (100.0 b)  TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)
[nbabic@Arch_nbabic ~]$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
Password: 
[nbabic@Arch_nbabic ~]$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:33:5A:36:2B  
          inet addr:192.168.1.84  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21e:33ff:fe5a:362b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:397 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:168318 (164.3 Kb)  TX bytes:76481 (74.6 Kb)
          Interrupt:29 Base address:0x6000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:100 (100.0 b)  TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:EA:C9:0F:C0  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[nbabic@Arch_nbabic ~]$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=15 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          
[nbabic@Arch_nbabic ~]$ iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     No scan results

Wyrm88

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Registered: 2010-05-05

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Re: [SOLVED]Wireless detected, no scan results - openbox, toshiba a300

Solved it, simply installed wicd and manually set the ESSID and passphrase. Funny, all the networks in the vicinity are shown in the wicd client, but not by iwlist.