problem scanning wifi lans

[Luca Ferrari]

I've found that manually disabling the wifi card and restarting it with the 
power button of the laptop allows me to scan for a network. It seems that the 
card is not rightly initialized. Any clue about how to investigate?

Thanks,
Luca


On Monday 02 November 2009 11:55:38 am Luca Ferrari's cat walking on the 
keyboard wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've got a curios problem: when using the wifi from the network manager
>  applet the card works fine, but if I try to run it from the command line I
>  can neither do a normal scan:
> 
> root at fluca-laptop:~# lspci | grep Wi
> 05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
> root at fluca-laptop:~# iwlist scan
> lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.
> 
> eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.
> 
> wmaster0  Interface doesn't support scanning.
> 
> wlan0     No scan results
> 
> pan0      Interface doesn't support scanning.
> 
> 
> No scan results for wlan0 but the applet shows me all the APs in the
> neighbourhood...any idea?
> 
> Thanks,
> Luca
>