The mystery of WiFi

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 02/01/2008, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Thanks for the response.
> But I always have NM off, as it does not work with all my devices,
> and I ran "service network restart" anyway without finding eth0.
>
> I had brief access to the laptop last night.
> It did bring up eth0 this time,
> but it did not find the access point.
>

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To help you further I think we'll need more information about the
access point )eg. what encryption scheme is being used, if any), the
wireless card type etc.

other things you can try for information include /sbin/iwlist scan and
/sbin/iwlconfig.