[PLUG] Sony Vaio Wireless Issue: Update

Mike C. mconnors1 at gmail.com
Tue May 22 21:57:39 UTC 2012


>
>   I just remembered, too, that when I bought the Sony a few months ago I
> installed Xubuntu-11.10 on it. When the wireless networking didn't work I
> replaced that distribution with Slackware.
>
>   So, two distributions, two wireless network managers, ... no wlan0
> working.
>
> > If you can run "iwlist scan" and see a list of WAPs the radio is
> working. When we tested at the coffee shop in Gresham, wlan0 was getting an
> ip addr. So the hardware is fine. But there is some sort of software or
> interplay of software problem as I suggested. Can you connect to an "open"
> WAP and get out to the internet? The reason you couldn't get to the
> internet from the coffee shop is because you couldn't connect to the wifi
> captive portal page to accept the T&C page because there  was a routing
> conflict between eth0 and wlan0.
>
> We need to isolate and test basic wifi functionality. Until you do this,
> we won't know what truly works and what doesn't.
>
> Step 1. Remove the static ip config for eth0
> Step 2: Test wifi connectivity and WLAN access to an WAP w/o a t&c captive
> portal toi the internet via command line. This removes any software issues
> with network management apps. If fact, you can do wireless config setup and
> wired setup in rc.inet1.conf.
>
> http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:network
>
>
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