problem scanning wifi lans

Nathan Bahn nathan.bahn at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 17:38:11 UTC 2009


On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
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Have you tried using the Graphic User Interface (GUI)?
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