[ltp] T61 Gutsy > Hardy upgrade almost fixed stuff

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sat, 03 May 2008 06:45:32 +0200
Peter Frühberger <peter.fruehberger@gmail.com> dijo:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Freitag, den 02.05.2008, 14:34 -0700 schrieb 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.
> 
> Your LED will be working fine. Just install
> linux-backports-modules-hardy-generic
> linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-16-generic <- meaning the one matchin to
> your kernel version

Thanks for the suggestion. I installed the
linux-backports-hardy-generic, which automatically selected the other
for installation. However, the light did not come on. I restarted the
network also, but it still did not come on.

However, I don't understand how it works when there are two different
network devices. I am currently at home where I have cable. I connect
via ethernet to the router and then the cable modem. If I am connected
by the ethernet, does that somehow block the wireless from working?
Would that be a reason why the light does not come on?

Also, I know my neighbors all have wireless networks - about six of
them are visible when I insert the Netgear WG511T wireless card. (In
that case Network Manager shows two wireless devices.) But when I use
only the built in 4965agn no wireless networks appear. On the other
hand, when I was at the university earlier today no wireless networks
appeared either, even though I connected to one. And the one I
connected to was the correct one for students to use. I don't even know
how it knew to connect to that one because I know there are dozens of
networks visible at the university. 

I am at a disadvantage for testing this because I have no wireless
networks to connect to at home. I have to wait until I am at the
university. Therefore I can do something like installing the above
modules, but I can't tell if it actually did anything.