[Cialug] DSL and wireless

[Tom Sellers]

Can you explain how to "post dmseg"?  Like I said Linux is not my strong suit.

--- On Fri, 1/8/10, jrnosee at gmail.com <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: jrnosee at gmail.com <jrnosee at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL and wireless
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 11:16 AM
> Can you post dmesg?  Is DSL loading your
> PCMCIA properly?
> 
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:23 PM,
> Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Tom Sellers wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > I loaded DSL on a USB stick so that I could boot up my
> laptop in Linux rather than try to use my other old laptop.
>  It works if I connect it directly to a cable but wireless
> is another story.  The DSL site says that the Cisco wirless
> 350 PCMCIA card works out of the box but I can't seem to
> make it work at all.  The laptop (IBM Thinkpad R60)actually
> has a built in Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG network card.
>  It appeared that this card does not work well with DSL so
> I chose to insert a Cisco 350 card that I had laying around
> since it was said to work out of the box.
> 
> 
> >
> 
> > Anyone have any experience with DSL running
> wirelessly?  Suggestions?
> 
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> Have you tried turning it off and back on again? Is
> it definitely plugged in?
> 
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> 
> Seriously, that's not a lot of information to go on.
> 
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> 
> Is is not detecting the WiFi interface(s)*?
> 
> 
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> Is it detecting the interface but not any wireless
> networks?
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> Is it detecting but not joining wireless networks?
> 
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> Is it joining networks but not letting you assign an
> address?
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> Is it configuring an address but not passing traffic?
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>         Zach
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> *On a related note, the Intel 3945 is supported by iwlwifi,
> which is in the mainline kernel since like 2.6.24, so it
> probably works now even if it didn't before as long as
> you've got a sufficiently new kernel.
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