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Old 07-08-2005, 10:59 PM   #1
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Wireless Sis900 network Card iwlist scan not working


Hello,
I ran into a very annoying problem. I have a Sis900 wireless fast ethernet card. and when I run "iwlist scan" it says "Interface doesn't support scanning : Operation not supported". I know i am using iwlist scan on the right ethernet device, something is wrong.

Can anyone help?

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Old 07-08-2005, 11:08 PM   #2
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How about output from:
iwconfig
ifconfig -a
lspci
 
Old 07-08-2005, 11:11 PM   #3
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iwconfig and ifconfig -a work perfectly fine, my wireless connection is fine. it's just iwlist scan doesn't work.
Here is output from lspci

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 14)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
00:06.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
 
Old 07-08-2005, 11:14 PM   #4
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Please guys, i've looked all over, tried everything and nothing works.
It worked perfectly on Windows, don't tell me it works in Windows and doesn't work in Linux.

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Old 07-09-2005, 07:07 PM   #5
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does anyone else have this problem? or just me?
 
Old 07-10-2005, 12:01 AM   #6
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Do you do "ifconfig wlan0 up" first? My card says operation not supported unless it's up.

Edit: it also may be a driver issue, post the output of "lsmod".

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Old 07-10-2005, 09:36 AM   #7
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I don't have a wlan0 device.

orinoco_pci 7373 0
orinoco 45645 1 orinoco_pci
hermes 7617 2 orinoco_pci,orinoco
sis900 19013 0
 
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You have a prism wireless card with the orinoco drivers. The builtin orinoco drivers don't do scanning. You either get the latest cvs version of orinoco or you can use the hostap drivers. You will need to compile them with the kernel source.
 
  


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