On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > Your gut may be correct. I suspect the hardware because I've used WICD > > on a different Sony Vaio and two different Toshiba models. Also with > > different Slackware versions. > > I just remembered, too, that when I bought the Sony a few months ago I > installed Xubuntu-11.10 on it. When the wireless networking didn't work I > replaced that distribution with Slackware. > > So, two distributions, two wireless network managers, ... no wlan0 > working. > > Never the less, the hardware is working. It didn't just guess which access points were in the neighborhood. New hardware might work because it bypasses some hidden configuration snafu, but it's no guarantee. Bill > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
