[nmglug] That wifi issue...

Sam Noble sam at thepromisedlan.org
Fri Aug 22 16:26:20 PDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 09:42 -0700, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
> Dear team, We were working on a wifi issue last night and the solution
> was the pcmcia card. Did anybody check the installed wifi mini card
> for proper installation? Maybe it wasn't the software or the switch.
> Ted P.
> 

Satguru's internal broadcom mini-pci card was detected and operation al
using the bw4 or whatever it's called these days broadcom wireless
driver. With the broadcom firmware also apparently provided by Ubuntu's
"Freedom is less important than Hardware" installation system.

iwconfig was showing a fully functional wireless card that happened to
always have a rx and tx strength of zero. I'm reasonably certain the
only problem was that the radio was disabled.

Eventually we need to look more carefully at those rfkill modules and
the rfswitch.sf.net project and figure out if there's a way to make the
little blue switch work or turn it on forever.




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