[ubuntu-in] How to test if the wifi hardware is working

[Sanjay Bhangar]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Aanjhan R <aanjhan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:29 AM, ramnarayan.k at gmail.com
> <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> > so is there anyway i can diagnose if my hardware has gone faulty ??
>

Just a little idiot-check because I know I have done this in the past - you
sure the little switch to turn on and off the wireless card isn't turned
off, right ?

-Sanjay


>
> 1. type "iwconfig". it must list down your Wireless interface if its
> working and all through.
> 2. You can also do lsmod and check whether iwl3945 is loaded or not.
> 3. Check your lspci output for your network controller.
>
> Just a curious question. If you are on Intrepid you should
> automatically be having network-manager as your default network
> manager to list and select wireless/wired networks. I am not sure why
> you prefer to this way round.
>
>
> HTH
> Aanjhan
>
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