Re: No Wireless

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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Zaki Akhmad wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> 
>> What wireless card and driver, and what's the output of '/sbin/iwconfig'
>> when this problem occurs?  It could be udev device renaming is screwing
>> up HAL.
> 
> za kafka:~$ /sbin/iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> wmaster0  no wireless extensions.
> 
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"ABRAKADABRA"
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:1C:F0:39:8A:AA
>           Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=27 dBm
>           Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
>           Link Quality=37/100  Signal level=-70 dBm  Noise level=-94 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> I manually configure wireless connection on /etc/network/interfaces

If you do that, you will get the symptoms you described. Take that stuff
out and manage it from NetworkManager or you will not be able to detect
it NetworkManager ignores interfaces that are configured that way IIRC.

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