Re: Card cannot scan

[Timothy Murphy <tim birdsnest maths tcd ie>]

On Fri 27 May 2005 23:06, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Can I assume that NM will not work with my WiFi card
> if I get the following response?
> ====================================
> [tim martha ~]$ sudo iwlist eth0 scan
> eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning : Operation not supported
> ====================================
>
> My card is a Lucent/Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card (11b), firmware version 8.72.
> I am running Fedora-3,
> and using the orinoco_cs module.

Just to follow on to my own post,
I finally enabled scanning with my card:
====================================
[tim martha ~]$ dmesg | grep orinoco
orinoco 0.15rc1STA (David Gibson <hermes gibson dropbear id au>, 
	Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>, et al)
orinoco_cs 0.15rc1STA (David Gibson <hermes gibson dropbear id au>, 
	Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>, et al)
[tim martha ~]$ sudo iwlist eth0 scanning
eth0      Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 02:02:2D:4A:52:80
                    ESSID:"maths.tcd.ie"
                    Mode:Ad-Hoc
                    Frequency:2.457 GHz (Channel 10)
                    Channel:10
                    Quality:32/92  Signal level:-62 dBm  Noise level:-94 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
====================================

I'm not sure what caused the improvement -
I re-installed the firmware, and re-compiled the latest CVS orinoco code,
but both seemed the same as before.
Probably I made a silly mistake earlier.

Tomorrow I will go to my local free hotspot,
and try NetworManager!

Thanks for all the advice.

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