[Hoary] Wireless Problem

[Ed Fletcher]

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I had wifi working great on my laptop with Warty and NetworkManager.
But there were a couple of other things that didn't work so well.  So I
did 'sudo apt-get dist upgrade' on it and then 'sudo apt-get install
kubuntu-desktop' and somewhere in there I pooched it totally.  Not a big
problem as I'd backed up what I wanted to keep from my home directory.
So I wiped the hard drive and installed Hoary from scratch.

However, now I get no response at all from my wireless card.  It's an
SMC2835W.  I've read the wireless troubleshooter wiki at
https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/WiFiTroubleshooting and I get an error
on step three.  iwconfig gives me:

$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      NOT READY!  ESSID:off/any
~          Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
~          Tx-Power=31 dBm   Sensitivity=0/200
~          Retry min limit:0   RTS thr=0 B   Fragment thr=0 B
~          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

This is probably a very informative error message but not to me.  Anyone
know what this is trying to tell me?  I don't even get a light on my
card, so I'm starting to wonder if the card is dead.

Thanks for any help.
Ed
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Ed Fletcher
ed at fletcher.ca

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?  -  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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