On 02/09/11 13:13, John Pierce wrote:
Greetings all!
I have been away from Fedora for some time, but came home to old faithful after realizing that OpenSuse was going to take forever to patch up the kernel to fix a buggy DSDT for my Toshiba labtops.
Here is my problem, along with some details:
I have two Toshiba L505D-GS6000 laptops that are identical, I truly mean identical. Running lspci on both machines will yield the same exact configuration.
I installed Fedora 14 on laptop 1, updated the system, installed wicd and removed networkmanager (I do not like it), and then ran the following commands.
I ran make clean&& make&& make install for the Realtek driver that I need for my wireless card, all went well and I was able to modprobe it successfully.
I then opened wicd and it saw my wireless router (WPA secured), I gave it the necessary credentials and all is fine, typing this post from that machine.
LAPTOP 2
Everything went identically to the above process, but I have no listing for WPA authentication. I have insured that wpa_supplicant is running and all versions are the same.
I am now at a complete loss to figure out what is keeping it from scanning the networks.
Any thoughts, ideas, comments would be greatly appreciated.
what does
iwlist <interface> scanning show?
e.g.
iwlist wlan0 scanning
should display info about existing access points with wlan0 being the wireless interface.
Paolo