Wireless card not showing up

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi.

This may not even be a Debian issue but i dont know where to start.

I have a ThinkPad T60 running Lenny. Its normally plugged into an Ethernet port. I realized recently that only the wired network is showing up
in my networking tools, even though the machine does support WiFi.

I rebooted it and i still only have my Ethernet card showing up. And when i look over the output of dmesg, theres nothing at all there for my wireless
card, at least nothing i can see.

Im absolutely sure theres a wireless card here; theres even an entry in the Network Manager Editor for an interface i sometimes use.

Because its not showing up in dmesg i wonder if its a hardware rather than driver problem, but i thought someone hear might have an idea of where to
start looking. I know the machine has never been dropped or damaged.

Thanks.

Jen


     


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[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI-4]

Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum escreveu:

> Hi.
>
> This may not even be a Debian issue but i dont know where to start.
>
> I have a ThinkPad T60 running Lenny. Its normally plugged into an Ethernet port. I realized recently that only the wired network is showing up
> in my networking tools, even though the machine does support WiFi.
>
> I rebooted it and i still only have my Ethernet card showing up. And when i look over the output of dmesg, theres nothing at all there for my wireless
> card, at least nothing i can see.
>
> Im absolutely sure theres a wireless card here; theres even an entry in the Network Manager Editor for an interface i sometimes use.
>
> Because its not showing up in dmesg i wonder if its a hardware rather than driver problem, but i thought someone hear might have an idea of where to
> start looking. I know the machine has never been dropped or damaged.
>  

Is there a switch or button to turn the wireless card on/off? Is it on?


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[Sebastian Günther-4]

* Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum (bg271828@...) [29.09.08 18:28]:

[WiFi Problem]

Please submit the results of the following commands:

# uname -a

# lspci

# ifconfig

# iwconfig

Then we know a little more about your hardware.

HTH
Sebastian

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[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Sebastian Gunther wrote:

> * Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum (bg271828@...) [29.09.08 18:28]:
>
> [WiFi Problem]
>
> Please submit the results of the following commands:
>
> # uname -a
>
> # lspci
>
> # ifconfig
>
> # iwconfig
>
> Then we know a little more about your hardware.

I seem to hvae fixed it.

I cleaned up some old repositories and then rebooted, and noticed that the card DID show up in the lspci list (though it hadnt before, im sure of it). It still
wasnt registering anywhere, but i realised that i was using an outdated
version of madwifi that didnt correspond to my current kernel. I recompiled
this and things are working now.

Sorry for the confusion.

Jen


     


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