Re: [gNewSense-users] Metad on Yeeloong 8101: "iwlist wlan0 scan" fails

[Karl Goetz]

On Sat, 15 May 2010 20:42:23 +0200
Christophe Jarry <address@hidden> wrote:

(no need to cc me)

> > > I have bought Lemote Yeeloong 8101 recently and installed
> > > gNewSense metad on it, without selecting "Desktop Environment"
> > > during the install (intentionally), by following the instructions
> > > given at http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS. Under
> > > gNewSense, i then installed 2.6.32.3-libre-lemote linux-libre
> > > kernel.
> > > 
> > > My problem is that wireless network doesn't work. "sudo ifconfig"
> > > gives me "eth0" and "lo" interfaces, while "sudo iwconfig" command
> > > adds a "wlan0" interface but then, "sudo iwlist wlan0 scan" gives
> > > me the following error message: "wlan0     Failed to read scan
> > > data : Operation not permitted".
> > > 
> The solution is to activate 'wlan0' interface by writing:
> 
>  sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

Can you include your interfaces file here?

> inside a terminal. I have added this information on the
> http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Documentation/Wireless page, under
> 'rtl8187b' section.

thanks

> A big thanks to Federico
> (http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2010-05/msg00035.html)
> who resolved my problem.

Which part of this message is the resolution? I'm not sure which bit is
applicable.
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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