Re: checking wireless cable

2011-08-21 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 19, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com writes: My guess is that you changed the region/country/jusridiction In different parts of the world, different channels are legal. For example, in some places channels 1-13 are legal,

Re: checking wireless cable

2011-08-20 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com writes: My guess is that you changed the region/country/jusridiction What do you mean? to one where channel 2 is not legal. CHANNEL is set to auto... Where you just in the new world? The old one, actually, and I didn't use my laptop there at

Re: checking wireless cable [SORT OF SOLVED]

2011-08-20 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
OK, it is sort of solved, but I don't know what combination of incantations was crucial. In the hope that it may help someone in the future here is a rough reconstruction of what I did, minus various futile attempts. I added PERSISTENT_DHCLIENT=yes to ifcfg-wlan0, commented out

checking wireless cable

2011-08-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hi, I have a weird - and rather embarrassing - problem after returning home from a trip. My laptop's wireless card can't connect to the wireless router (D-Link DIR-615) anymore. I am fairly certain that no configuration has changed. Fedora 14 on an X200 ThinkPad with Intel iwl5100AGN card.

Re: checking wireless cable

2011-08-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:02:14PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Has anyone encountered anything similar? Any suggestions for things I should try? What is the output of 'iwconfig' and of 'iwlist scanning', both as root? I have a feeling it won't say much, but just in case. -- Didi

Re: checking wireless cable

2011-08-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org writes: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:02:14PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Has anyone encountered anything similar? Any suggestions for things I should try? What is the output of 'iwconfig' and of 'iwlist scanning', both as root? I have a feeling

Re: checking wireless cable

2011-08-18 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 19, 2011, at 12:21 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: What is the output of 'iwconfig' and of 'iwlist scanning', both as root? I have a feeling it won't say much, but just in case. My guess is that you changed the region/country/jusridiction to one where channel 2 is not legal. Where