Re: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-05-13 Thread westniles46
Carl, I struggled with an HP6000 for a long time. By accident I learned that the wireless hotkey was really flakey. The blue LED was on permanently even wireless was off. Someone else wrote that their blue light never turned on. Sometimes, I need to push the wireless hot key for several seconds

Re: results of iwconfig etc. Re: configuring madwifi

2008-02-25 Thread westniles46
Thanks everyone for the help! The solution was a flakey hot-function key that disables the wifi without turning off the wifi blue led. To get wifi to work, I do the following: iwlist ath0 scan while (slowly press wifi hot key) Does anyone use the GUI wifi-radar? Does that work well? Thanks Da

results of iwconfig etc. Re: configuring madwifi

2008-02-17 Thread westniles46
Hi Everyone, Attached are the results of ifconfig, iwconfig, and iwlist ath0 scan. Maybe someone can see something in there. Also, the wireless used to work under windows a little while ago, but I suppose it could have broken recently. David -- Original message --

configuring madwifi

2008-02-17 Thread westniles46
Hi Everyone, I'm struggling with wireless on my nc6000 laptop. I followed the newbie instructions on www.madwifi.org. Installation went well, the blue light turns on. Then when I type "wlist ath0 scan", the return is "ath0 no scan results" even though I a next to my wireless router at home. I'm