On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Marc Haber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:49:14PM -0500, William Bourque wrote: >> Silly question, but did you try to "up" (ifconfig wlan0 up) the >> interface before scanning? > > I tried ip link set dev wlan0 up, which gave me a few more dmesg lines: > b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode15.fw > b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0initvals15.fw > b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw > b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.108 (2008-07-01 00.50:23) > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready > > iwlist scan wlan0 still says 'doesn't support scanning"
Is your kernel compiled with WEXT scanning support? AFAIK it is deprecated in 2.6.33 in favor of nl80211 (i.e. "iw dev wlan0 scan"), so it is not auto-selected. > > Greetings > Marc > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header > Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 > Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 3221 2323190 > _______________________________________________ > Bcm43xx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev > -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
