[ltp] T61 Gutsy > Hardy upgrade almost fixed stuff

[John Jason Jordan]

On Thu, 1 May 2008 23:24:33 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj@comcast.net> dijo:

> On Fri, 2 May 2008 05:03:47 +0100
> Ashok Leyland <a_06357@fastmail.fm> dijo:
> 
> > > All I need is to get the 4965agn working and my life will be perfect.
> > > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > try doing 
> >     ifconfig wlan0 up
> > and then
> >     iwlist wlan0 scan
> > mine won't scan unless the interface is brought up first
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. Didn't work:
> 
> jjj@Devil7:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
> [sudo] password for jjj: 
> jjj@Devil7:~$ iwlist wlan0 scan
> wlan0     No scan results

Well, I may have complained too soon. I do not have wireless at home,
although my neighbors do. I was unable to see any of the neighbors'
networks, so i concluded that the 4965agn was not working. That is
because ever since getting my T61 I have been using a Netgear PCMCIA
card, and when I insert it at home it does show the neighbors' networks.

So today I am at the university and the 4965agn is working fine. The
LED is not lit up, but I'm not overly concerned about that. The only
thing I can conclude is that because I was connected via ethernet to my
cable connection at home the 4965agn was blocked from working. Here at
the university, of course, I am not connected to ethernet, so it works.
That's a wild-ass theory. Actually, I don't much give a damn, as long
as it continues to work.