[PLUG] Lenovo T61 and Intel 4965 wireless
John Jason Jordan
johnxj at comcast.net
Fri Oct 26 07:27:00 UTC 2007
On 25 Oct 2007 23:11:58 -0700
Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> dijo:
> >>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> writes:
>
> John> So T61 users, does your wireless work? If so, what
> John> distro/architecture do you have? What is the wireless chipset
> John> (mine is Intel 4965)? I need more suggestions.
>
> Wireless drivers are under heavy development right now. I am not sure
> what distributions are doing with that development at the moment
> (whether they are using it or not) because I use vanilla kernels and
> mostly atheros radios (not intel, like yours). I read something
> recently on the linux-wireless mailing list about how someone cured an
> association problem by scanning manually (iwlist <iface> scan). I
> have no idea whether that will help you.
That sort of worked. Except it didn't get me anywhere. :(
I am at home right now and the only wireless networks are a few
neighbors. Still, in the past, using the Ubuntu GUI, the networks would
be visible in the dr\op-down list from network-manager. That was using
the old computer with Feisty amd64 and ndiswrapper with the Broadcom
4306 chip.
Running "iwlist wlan0 scan" I can see the neighbors:
jjj at Devil7:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:19:E4:4A:80:A1
ESSID:"2WIRE656"
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=35/100 Signal level=-88 dBm Noise
level=-127 dBm Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=00000017787163c3
and so on for the rest of the neighbors.
However, when I go into the GUI the dropdown does not function. It used
to show all the available networks, whether I had a password to connect
to them or not. Now the dropdown button just does nothing. Having said
that, the three times I have been able to get wireless working, the
dropdown did work. I think the problem is in the Gutsy GUI tool.
I also found a post on Ubuntu:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=587922&highlight=thinkpad+wireless
I posted a followup, but no responses so far.
Thanks for the "iwlist <iface> scan" line. At least it proves that the
wireless is working, the drivers are working, and it can see other
wireless networks. Why I can't actually connect to any of them (e.g.,
at PSU) is the remaining question.
I should add that I added a gnome tray icon for the wireless. It sits
there constantly with a red X through it.
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