NetworkManager, wlan0 doesn't come up by default
Martin Marques
martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar
Mon Sep 10 21:07:18 UTC 2007
Matthew Miller escribió:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:48:49PM -0300, Martin Marques wrote:
>> The problem is that I don't see the posible wireless AP to connect to,
>> as the wlan0 device is not up.
>
> The device doesn't have to be up -- there's a difference between "up" and
> "exists", and the network can be scanned for SSIDs without the device being
> actually up. (That's how it usually works, actually.)
>
> Does the wireless network in question have any non-alphanumeric characters
> in its SSID? That's a known problem in NetworkManager.
>
Oh, really?
[root at localhost ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:24:44:BC:B5
inet addr:192.168.0.5 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:24ff:fe44:bcb5/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:67947 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:60695 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:75810166 (72.2 MiB) TX bytes:5364115 (5.1 MiB)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0x2000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7646 (7.4 KiB) TX bytes:7646 (7.4 KiB)
[root at localhost ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
[root at localhost ~]# iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
What's wrong here then?
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