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Old 03-30-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Wireless card not seeing access point

I was able to install ndiwwrapper and it sees wlan0, but i cant see the access point(it says not-associated) and when I go to Network in Fedora 8, I cant see my device. How can I fix this?
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Open a terminal and as su do:
Code:
/sbin/lsmod
Do you see ndiswrapper there? If not, do:
Code:
/sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
...and try again. When you see it there, do:
Code:
/sbin/iwlist wlan0 scanning
Do you see access points? Can you post here the results of:
Code:
/sbin/iwconfig
And:
Code:
/sbin/ifconfig
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Here is my whole thing interminal, hope this helps:

[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
rfcomm 33233 0
l2cap 21953 9 rfcomm
bluetooth 48165 4 rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 149213 3
loop 16197 0
dm_multipath 18505 0
ipv6 228357 10
snd_via82xx 26585 3
gameport 14153 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec 93413 1 snd_via82xx
ac97_bus 5825 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy 6725 0
snd_seq_oss 31553 0
snd_seq_midi_event 9665 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 48945 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
via_ircc 20949 0
irda 102521 1 via_ircc
crc_ccitt 5953 1 irda
snd_pcm_oss 44353 0
snd_mixer_oss 17217 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 70981 3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
parport_pc 26725 0
parport 32393 1 parport_pc
snd_timer 21317 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11593 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 10305 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 22465 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 10317 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
floppy 52741 0
pcspkr 6465 0
snd 48325 18 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_o ss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_t imer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 9505 1 snd
via_rhine 23753 0
mii 8257 1 via_rhine
i2c_viapro 10965 0
i2c_core 21057 1 i2c_viapro
button 10321 0
ndiswrapper 168476 0
sg 32209 0
sr_mod 17381 0
cdrom 33761 1 sr_mod
dm_snapshot 17765 0
dm_zero 5697 0
dm_mirror 21569 0
dm_mod 49029 9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
pata_acpi 8641 0
ata_generic 8901 0
pata_via 12357 2
libata 128817 3 pata_acpi,ata_generic,pata_via
sd_mod 26817 3
scsi_mod 123725 4 sg,sr_mod,libata,sd_mod
ext3 112457 2
jbd 40789 1 ext3
mbcache 10177 1 ext3
uhci_hcd 23761 0
ohci_hcd 22725 0
ehci_hcd 32333 0
[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0 No scan results

[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:17 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 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

eth1 no wireless extensions.

[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:5B:12:2C:3C
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)
Interrupt:19 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:2265 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2265 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3119772 (2.9 MiB) TX bytes:3119772 (2.9 MiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:66:3B:2A:ED
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)
Interrupt:18 Memory:eb000000-eb000800
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Do:
Code:
/sbin/dhclient wlan0
Then:
Code:
/sbin/ifconfig
...to see if the router gives you an ip address. Did you try making any settings with:
Code:
system-config-network
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the only ip address i got was 255.255.255 and the ifconfig showed the same thing as before, i didnt touch system config.

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