Re: [gNewSense-users] wireless on lemote metad

[Sam Geeraerts]

Karl Goetz schreef:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:52:12 -0500
> Quiliro Ordóñez <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > 2010/1/29 Karl Goetz <address@hidden>:
> > > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:40:46 -0500
> > > Quiliro Ordóñez <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I can't use my wireless. The module rtl8187b is loaded and I can
> > > > see wlan0 but it does not see any network with scan on iwlist.
> >
> > > Whats changed recently? check dmesg, I noticed my wifi was getting
> > > renamed to wlan1 (reason unknown).
> > It's a brand new installation from
> > http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS
>
> dmesg and syslog give no clues?

I also don't have wifi on my fresh install. I do have it on my old 
install with the same kernel (.32.4). Module rtl8187b shows up in lsmod 
output of both, but "Used by" count is 0 in the fresh install and 2 in 
the old install. wlan0 shows up in both 'iwconfig' and 'ifconfig -a', so 
it hasn't been renamed. Networkmanager doesn't list any wireless 
connections. 'iwlist wlan0 scan' (as root) says "wlan0  Failed to read 
scan data : Operation not permitted". The wifi LED is on all the time. 
Pressing Fn+F5 doesn't change anything. dmesg shows a few of these:

rtl8187: rtl8187_open process failed because radio off

syslog doesn't show anything strange.