G'day Anne, Yes, a manual "sudo iwlist eth0 scan" in Terminal, or an "iwlist eth0 scan" in console, until the AP appears, is all it takes to fix. You derived an independent workaround for the same problem!
If you have some XO-1 that work and some that don't, then you might have one broken antenna cable, which might cause this; the XO-1 uses one antenna for transmit and the other for receive, some of the time. (If the transmit antenna is broken, an active scan may not be heard by an access point. If the receive antenna is broken, the reply from an access point might not be heard by the laptop. Both can result in no scan results containing the access point. But regardless, my tests so far have shown the problem happens with two known good antennas.) I'd be interested in some test results though, using the script in my previous mail, if you have time. It would be good if we could have wider data than just Terry and I. The antenna test is also useful data. With it, and practice, you can identify laptops with single broken antennas. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Antenna_testing -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel