F14 RC3: WiFi problem on Samsung netbooks

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:16:20 +0100
Ron Leach <ronleach at tesco.net> wrote:

> List, a testing difficulty.
> 
> Installed F14 RC3 XFCE from the CD-sized image released by Kevin on 
> Sept 30.  Netbook is Samsung NB30, and dual boots F14 RC3 or XPhome. 
> WiFi is built-in; there is no physical on/off button for it, but a 
> softkey combination, 'Function key' and F9, switch WiFi off and on in 
> Windows XPhome.
> 
> Under F14, Network manager does not seem to recognise any WiFi access 
> points and, after adding some, still does not see them to connect to. 
>   The 'network icon' in the panel has a 'red cross' against it.
> 
> I have also tried F13 XFCE spin (live CD) and F13 does not find the 
> wireless system, either.
> 
> If I connect a wired Ethernet cable, the network connects using the 
> wired system.  I wonder if the WiFi module is not switching on, or 
> being switched on?

What wireless card is it? 

lspci and/or lsusb should tell you. 

> On a different netbook, Acer AspireOne (on which F13 XFCE is 
> installed), while F13 does find the inbuilt wireless system and
> lights a WiFi LED, the F14 RC3 XFCE liveCD does not find the
> wireless, and the WiFi LED on the AspireOne does not light.
> 
> I'll do some more checks of dmesg to see how far F14 gets in finding 
> the WiFi system.  Are there other files I should check?

I would first look at lspci/lsusb to figure out what card it is, then
go from there. dmesg might also be informative. 

kevin
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