On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 08:42:40PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
Well, you could check that you're not being insane by going to a terminal and doing:
/sbin/iwlist <nameofwirelessinterface> scanand see if that brings anything back... if it says that the interface wasn't available or some other such, then you might need to ifconfig the interface up first.
So what's <nameofwirelessinterface>? This is often much of the problem with WiFi, these 'things' that if you know what they are are obvious but if you don't are inscrutable.
... well I've discovered that eth1 is my WiFi as nm-tool reports:-
- Device: eth1 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Type: 802.11 WiFi Driver: wl State: disconnected Default: no HW Address: 70:F1:A1:2D:DA:86
Capabilities:
Wireless Properties WEP Encryption: yes WPA Encryption: yes WPA2 Encryption: yes
... but I can't scan it:-
chris@laptop:~$ /sbin/iwlist eth1 scan eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning.
Hmph! :-)
I'm glad my dongle works reasonably well.