on a command line run:<br>dmesg > dmesg.txt<br><br>Then attach the .txt file if you can in your next email.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Tom Sellers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomsellers2001@yahoo.com">tomsellers2001@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Can you explain how to "post dmseg"? Like I said Linux is not my strong suit.<br>
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> From: <a href="mailto:jrnosee@gmail.com">jrnosee@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:jrnosee@gmail.com">jrnosee@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL and wireless<br>
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <<a href="mailto:cialug@cialug.org">cialug@cialug.org</a>><br>
> Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 11:16 AM<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Can you post dmesg? Is DSL loading your<br>
> PCMCIA properly?<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:23 PM,<br>
> Zachary Kotlarek <<a href="mailto:zach@kotlarek.com">zach@kotlarek.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
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> On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Tom Sellers wrote:<br>
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> > I loaded DSL on a USB stick so that I could boot up my<br>
> laptop in Linux rather than try to use my other old laptop.<br>
> It works if I connect it directly to a cable but wireless<br>
> is another story. The DSL site says that the Cisco wirless<br>
> 350 PCMCIA card works out of the box but I can't seem to<br>
> make it work at all. The laptop (IBM Thinkpad R60)actually<br>
> has a built in Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG network card.<br>
> It appeared that this card does not work well with DSL so<br>
> I chose to insert a Cisco 350 card that I had laying around<br>
> since it was said to work out of the box.<br>
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> ><br>
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> > Anyone have any experience with DSL running<br>
> wirelessly? Suggestions?<br>
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> Have you tried turning it off and back on again? Is<br>
> it definitely plugged in?<br>
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> Seriously, that's not a lot of information to go on.<br>
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> Is is not detecting the WiFi interface(s)*?<br>
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> Is it detecting the interface but not any wireless<br>
> networks?<br>
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> Is it detecting but not joining wireless networks?<br>
><br>
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> Is it joining networks but not letting you assign an<br>
> address?<br>
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> Is it configuring an address but not passing traffic?<br>
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> Zach<br>
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> *On a related note, the Intel 3945 is supported by iwlwifi,<br>
> which is in the mainline kernel since like 2.6.24, so it<br>
> probably works now even if it didn't before as long as<br>
> you've got a sufficiently new kernel.<br>
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