<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">a couple of things to try:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">first run <b>iwconfig </b>from a terminal.
You should see a listing for your wireless, probably wlan0. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If that works, try: <b>iwlist scan </b>this
will find networks available for connection</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If now wireless shows up with iwconfig,
run <b>dmesg </b>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.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Also try <b>lsusb (if external usb dongle)
</b>or <b>lspci (if internal card) </b>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. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Brandon Stone<br>
Web Applications Developer<br>
Department of Web and Technology Solutions<br>
Duke University School of Nursing<br>
o. 919-668-2333<br>
e. brandon.stone@duke.edu</font>
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<br><font size=3>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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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-Ivan<br>
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