[Cialug] DSL and wireless

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Can you post dmesg?  Is DSL loading your PCMCIA properly?

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Tom Sellers wrote:
>
> > I loaded DSL on a USB stick so that I could boot up my laptop in Linux
> rather than try to use my other old laptop.  It works if I connect it
> directly to a cable but wireless is another story.  The DSL site says that
> the Cisco wirless 350 PCMCIA card works out of the box but I can't seem to
> make it work at all.  The laptop (IBM Thinkpad R60)actually has a built in
> Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG network card.  It appeared that this card does
> not work well with DSL so I chose to insert a Cisco 350 card that I had
> laying around since it was said to work out of the box.
> >
> > Anyone have any experience with DSL running wirelessly?  Suggestions?
>
>
>
> Have you tried turning it off and back on again? Is it definitely plugged
> in?
>
> Seriously, that's not a lot of information to go on.
>
> Is is not detecting the WiFi interface(s)*?
>
> Is it detecting the interface but not any wireless networks?
>
> Is it detecting but not joining wireless networks?
>
> Is it joining networks but not letting you assign an address?
>
> Is it configuring an address but not passing traffic?
>
>        Zach
>
> *On a related note, the Intel 3945 is supported by iwlwifi, which is in the
> mainline kernel since like 2.6.24, so it probably works now even if it
> didn't before as long as you've got a sufficiently new kernel.
>
>
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