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20 Apr 11
Network wirless utilit (Harware Lister) vision that:
"
Wireless interface
/1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:0c:6e:7a:1c:3a
capabilities:
ethernet,
Physical interface,
Wireless-LAN
configuration:
broadcast: yes
multicast: yes
wireless: IEEE 802.11b
this device has been disabled
"
How I may enebled this device?
20 Apr 11
Hi,
First check here:
http://support.asus.com/Specification.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=A2H&p=3&s=28&hashedid=1GpEdjg9wmum1DfV
As you can see, your fist thing to test is:
Hot Keys: -Fn+F2 Wireless switch
If that not works, can you provide more information about your system, what Linux distribution are you running?
If you don't know test to run "lsb_release -a" and "uname -a" in the terminal.
Also you can test to run "iwconfig" in the terminal to get some info.
21 Apr 11
Try what Aron said, but also, if the device merely needs to be started:
ifup wlan0
or
ifconfig wlan0 up
also, check the BIOS for a wireless device setting that maybe disabled.
-bill
21 Apr 11
On my Dell laptops, I have physical switches. One is an led light that I have to touch, the other is a toggle switch, make sure yours is enabled. As said in the posts above, it could also be a setting in the bios, but, on modern day machines, there should be a physical switch.
If you could give us the output of:
lspci | grep -i net
BTW - With the different outputs for wifi adapters, if lspci | grep -i net does't give you any output, try:
lspci | grep -i wire
lspci | grep -i wifi
The more help you give us, the more we can give you.
23 Apr 11
nico@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
nico@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-30-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 21:30:21 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
nico@ubuntu:~$ ifup wlan0
ifup: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate: Permission denied
nico@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: –û—Ç–∫–∞–∑–∞–Ω–æ –≤ –¥–æ—Å—Ç—É–ø–µ
nico@ubuntu:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
[sudo] password for nico:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: error 132
nico@ubuntu:~$ sudo su
root@ubuntu:/home/nico# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: error 132
root@ubuntu:/home/nico# lspci | grep -i net
00:0c.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4303 802.11b Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] (rev 12)
root@ubuntu:/home/nico# lspci | grep -i wire
00:02.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] FireWire Controller
00:0c.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4303 802.11b Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
root@ubuntu:/home/nico# lspci | grep -i wifi
root@ubuntu:/home/nico# exit
exit
nico@ubuntu:~$
23 Apr 11
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