<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Luca Ferrari <<a href="mailto:fluca1978@infinito.it">fluca1978@infinito.it</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <div><div></div><div class="h5">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@fluca-laptop:~# lspci | grep Wi > 05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100 > root@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 > -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> Have you tried using the Graphic User Interface (GUI)?