[Bug 176090] Re: WiFi / WLAN LED not working on notebooks with Intel iwl4965 | iwl3945

[Laurent Bonnaud]

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 15:31 +0000, charles.figura wrote:
> When I install the backports module (with the 1.2.25
> driver) iwconfig sees no wireless extensions - so no wireless, and no
> LED.

On my system, the wifi network interface has a strange name:

# ifconfig
[...]
wlan0_rename Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:02:1d:6b:ee
          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)

# iwconfig wlan0_rename
wlan0_rename  IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:""  Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=27 dBm
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   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

Are you sure that you use the correct interface name ?

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Laurent Bonnaud.
http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_perso/bonnaud/

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WiFi / WLAN LED not working on notebooks with Intel iwl4965 | iwl3945
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176090
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