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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



  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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