WPA and no wireless detected

[Manuel Escudero]

2011/2/9 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com>

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> 2011/2/9 John Pierce <john.j35 at gmail.com>
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> 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.
>>
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>> John
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>
> Amm, is your SSID hidden? try to make it visible and then Try to reconect
> the second laptop after a reboot,
> also is the wireless adapter working? Try to unlock it with rfkill:
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> (As Root in your terminal)
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> 1.- sudo yum -y install rfkill
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> 2.- rfkill list
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> 3.- rfkill unblock all
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> 4.- rfkill list
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> Hope it gets solved.
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> --
> <-Manuel Escudero->
> Linux User #509052
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P.S. I forgot! After running rfkill's unlocking, try to connect without
rebooting the laptop first :)

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<-Manuel Escudero->
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