Networking Problem

[darkelfpoet]

I'm having problems with my wireless card - here's some of the information I've gotten while looking at other posts


dmesg gives me a line that reads
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

iwlist scanning
wlan0: No scan results

iwconfig wlan0
IEEE 802.11g
ESSID: off/any
Nickname:"localhost"
Mode: Managed
Frequency: 2.412 GHz
Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
Tx-power: 25 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B
Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key: off
Power Management: off
Link Quality: 100/100
Signel level: -10 dBm
Noise level: -246 dBm
Rx invalid nwid: 0
Rx invalid crypt: 0
Rx invalid frag: 0
Tx excessive retries: 0
Invalid misc: 0
Missed beacon: 0

This was working fine the other day, but I made some change and I lost the wireless network connection - I assumed it was work they were doign at school, but now I can't find my home network either which I know is on (The WindowsXP box can see it). I think it isn't detecting the network for some reason - from all the posts I've read, my wifi card is working - so can anyone help me with why I can't see the network?

[gtmtnbiker98]

Try disabiling IPv6 support on the interface and see what happens.

[darkelfpoet]

I disabled it and am no longer getting the message in dmesg (all the wlan0 messages look good to me) but I still am not seeing any wireless networks either in iwlist or in the drakroam GUI

[darkelfpoet]

I was in playing with this when this started - here are the current settings of the MCC Manage Connections (Mandriva 2006 by the way)

Device selected: wlan0: Broadcom Corporation [BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller

TCP/IP
Protocol: DHCP
IP Address: No IP (greyed out)
Netmask: No Mask (greyed out)

DHCP
DHCP Client: dhclient
Assign host name from DHCP address: yes
DHCP host name: (blank)
DHCP timeout: (blank)
Get DNS servers from DHCP: yes
Get YP servers from DHCP: no
Get NTPD servers from DHCP: no

Wireless
Operating Mode: Managed
Network name (ESSID): any
(Everything else: blank)

Options
Start at boot: yes
Track network card ID: yes
Network hotplugging: yes
Metric: 10

[darkelfpoet]

my apologies - I am an idiot. The HP laptop has a Wireless Networking button on it that I had switched off somehow.