About to Give up on Mint Wireless
I'm absolutely certain that wireless was working when I first installed Mint 9 but I always use Ethernet. Took the laptop to the hospital tonight for my wife to use and like a total fool I couldn't get this machine to connect to the hospital's free wireless (making an already bad situation even worse for my wife).
I must assume that the card is recognized and functional since the amber indicator light is lit up and iwconfig returns legitimate output. Code:
# iwconfig wlan0 scan Checking for an IP address turned up nothing: Code:
$ ifconfig wlan0 Code:
# ifconfig wlan0 down Anyways this is a built in Intel Pro Wireless card. I really have no idea what to try next. I'm so frustrated that I'm almost ready to wipe the machine and put Fedora on it. Code:
# lspci | grep -i network |
Hi thund3rstruck, Welcome to LQ. Please post the output from the following.
Code:
# lsmod | grep iwl3945 |
Thanks for the welcome! But I've been a member for 6 years ;) ... I just have no experience troubleshooting wireless :(
Sure thing... Code:
$ lsmod | grep iwl3945 Code:
$ ls /lib/firmware | grep .ucode |
Have you tried associating with an AP and issuing dhclient from the cli?
Code:
# iwconfig wlan0 essid youressid key yourkey |
Quote:
I'm not usually the type to 're-install'... but this was really biting me and starting to wear down my ego. I had to get a resolution ASAP. Thanks again PeaceDog for your patience, I'm gonna make a note of the iwconfig command you mentioned (I played with iwconfig but wasn't getting the syntax right because stdout kept displaying the help screen) just in case I should come across this in the future. |
Glad you got it sorted!
Good luck. ;-) |
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