wifi card not recognised properly

jack jdangler at terremark.com
Mon Jul 23 20:26:11 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 16:19 -0400, Nigel Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> Every thing worked fine on Xubuntu 6.10 but since I upgraded to 7.04 I
> seem to have lost the wireless card
> 
> If I do
> sudo lshw -C network
> 
> I get
> 
> nigel at henry:~$ sudo lshw -C network
>   *-network:0 DISABLED   
>        description: Ethernet interface
>        product: Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset
>        vendor: Intersil Corporation
>        physical id: 2
>        bus info: pci at 02:02.0
>        logical name: wlan0
>        version: 01
>        width: 32 bits
>        clock: 33MHz
>        capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
>        configuration: broadcast=yes driver=p80211_prism2_pci
> driverversion=0.2.5 latency=64 link=no multicast=yes resources:
> iomemory:ec000000-ec000fff irq:11
>  *-network:1
>        description: Ethernet interface
> 
> now for some reason this is showing "disabled". The laptop is an IBM
> T23 and I know that the card is not disabled in BIOS as the machine is
> dual boot and ubder windows its fine.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to enable this card.
> 
> Cheers
> Nigel
> 
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What do you get with ifconfig ?  With iwconfig?
With hwinfo?





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