[Cialug] DSL and wireless

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Jan 13, 2010, at 5:37 AM, Tom Sellers wrote:

> Not sure how to answer this for sure.  I can attach this laptop to my home network with a cable.  I just can't get it to recognize either the internal wireless card or the PCMCIA card that I plugged in.
> 
> It never gets to the point where it would assign or pick up an IP address.


Okay. Then dmesg is the place to start, as other have suggested. We need to get it to see the hardware before anything else is going to work.

And lsmod wouldn't hurt either.
	lsmod > lsmod.txt
That will tell us which modules are currently loaded.

	Zach

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