[Trilug-ontopic] Wireless is dead after closing laptop lid

Ivan Panarusky panaruskyi at gmail.com
Mon Jun 21 13:47:17 EDT 2010


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As far as I can tell, there are no obvious problems.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Brandon T Stone <brandon.stone at duke.edu>wrote:

>
> a couple of things to try:
> first run *iwconfig *from a terminal.  You should see a listing for your
> wireless, probably wlan0.
> If that works, try: *iwlist scan *this will find networks available for
> connection
>
> If now wireless shows up with iwconfig, run *dmesg *in a terminal.  There
> may be an error preventing your wireless driver from loading.  Some wireless
> drivers in linux conflict and you may have to blacklist one in order to get
> yours working.
>
> Also try *lsusb (if external usb dongle) *or *lspci (if internal card) *to
> see if your network adapter is being seen at all.  These commands will give
> you better information about your wireless hardware, which you can search
> on.
>
> Brandon Stone
> Web Applications Developer
> Department of Web and Technology Solutions
> Duke University School of Nursing
> o. 919-668-2333
> e. brandon.stone at duke.edu
>
>
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> So I had just gotten to my Grandma's house and booted up my laptop. Her
> wireless is setup with broadcast ssid, mac address filtering, and no
> encryption. (don't bug me about this, it's the best I could do to keep a
> squeezebox working) I logged into her router, and added my mac address to
> the allowed list and pulled up the list of wireless networks on my laptop. I
> noted that her network, and an additional encrypted one (neighbor) showed up
> on the list. I selected her network, and connected without a problem.
>
> Shortly thereafter, I closed my laptop's lid. A minute or two later, I
> opened it again, but it didn't reconnect to wireless as it usually does.
> Instead, no wireless networks showed up whatsoever. I tried rebooting the
> computer multiple times, and reinstalling the broadcom driver, but I still
> can't get wireless to connect at all. It won't show the list of available
> networks, nor will it connect if you enter the ssid manually. (It appears to
> try though) The wired connection works fine though.
>
> I know that I didn't accidentally disable the wireless card, because it
> clearly says when I do. I also don't believe that it's a problem with her
> router, because the squeezebox still works, and the neighbors connection
> should still be showing up anyway.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a hardware failure, but that is unlikely as this
> laptop is about a week old. I have a Dell Studio 14z (1440) running Ubuntu
> 10.04.
>
> -Ivan
>
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