From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems with Belkin F5D7010 PCMCIA 1799:701f while trying WPA connection
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:52:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <489F5508.2020808@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489F501C.5070408@au-79.de>
Robert Goldner wrote:
>
> The ifconfig output seems good (like other working wlan cards), and the
> interface is up. But iwlist wlan0 scan does not find any wlan-network.
> Very strange, because I made this test very close to the access-point
> (about 30 cm distance). With other wlan-cards I get signal levels of
> ~80% of maximum. So maybe the receiving part is broken. I can not test
> the hardware with the windows-driver, because I don't have a
> windows-installation.
Just for the record, you should run iwlist as root. That is the only
way you will get an active scan. In addition, it may take several
tries; however, wpa_supplicant did all that before without finding any
results. A broken card is a strong possibility. Do any of your
colleagues have Windows?
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-10 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-10 8:42 Problems with Belkin F5D7010 PCMCIA 1799:701f while trying WPA connection Robert Goldner
2008-08-10 14:12 ` Larry Finger
2008-08-10 20:36 ` Robert Goldner
2008-08-10 22:13 ` Stefanik Gábor
[not found] ` <489F501C.5070408@au-79.de>
2008-08-10 20:52 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2008-08-12 6:03 ` Robert Goldner
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