Wifi not working

Gergely 'Dinchamion' Fazekas ubuntu at dinchamion.info
Fri Mar 29 06:42:33 UTC 2013


PIYUSH SINGH <meetpiyush2006 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi ,
>
>I have a Dell studio 1555 and its wifi isn't working. I checked with
>the
>rfkill list and nothing is softblocked or hardblocked .
>
>Its showing the enable wireless and enable networking in the network
>manger
>notification applet but they system isn't ale to detect any wireless
>networks and even if i create a wireless network using my laptop its
>created (An Ad-Hoc network ) but that is also not visible to my other
>device.
>
>I also removed and reinstalled the wireless module (dell-wmi ) using
>the
>modprobe.
>
>Thanks for the help in advance
>
>
>Cheers ,
>Piyush
>
>
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Can you include the output of dmesg | grep wmi and lspci? 

It may be a firmware issue, did it work before or is it a fresh install? My nc6220 is using the ipw2200 firmware and sometimes it goes rogue with a fw load error. 

Anyway, some log output would be helpful to pinpoint the problem. 

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