2011/2/9 Manuel Escudero <jmlev...@gmail.com> > > > 2011/2/9 John Pierce <john....@gmail.com> > > Greetings all! >> >> I have been away from Fedora for some time, but came home to old >> faithful after realizing that OpenSuse was going to take forever to >> patch up the kernel to fix a buggy DSDT for my Toshiba labtops. >> >> Here is my problem, along with some details: >> >> I have two Toshiba L505D-GS6000 laptops that are identical, I truly >> mean identical. Running lspci on both machines will yield the same >> exact configuration. >> >> I installed Fedora 14 on laptop 1, updated the system, installed wicd >> and removed networkmanager (I do not like it), and then ran the >> following commands. >> >> I ran make clean && make && make install for the Realtek driver that I >> need for my wireless card, all went well and I was able to modprobe it >> successfully. >> >> I then opened wicd and it saw my wireless router (WPA secured), I gave >> it the necessary credentials and all is fine, typing this post from >> that machine. >> >> LAPTOP 2 >> >> Everything went identically to the above process, but I have no >> listing for WPA authentication. I have insured that wpa_supplicant is >> running and all versions are the same. >> >> I am now at a complete loss to figure out what is keeping it from >> scanning the networks. >> >> Any thoughts, ideas, comments would be greatly appreciated. >> >> -- >> John >> Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at >> http://counter.li.org >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> > > > Amm, is your SSID hidden? try to make it visible and then Try to reconect > the second laptop after a reboot, > also is the wireless adapter working? Try to unlock it with rfkill: > > (As Root in your terminal) > > 1.- sudo yum -y install rfkill > > 2.- rfkill list > > 3.- rfkill unblock all > > 4.- rfkill list > > > Hope it gets solved. > > -- > <-Manuel Escudero-> > Linux User #509052 > @GWave: jmlev...@googlewave.com > @Blogger: http://www.blogxenode.tk/ (Xenode Systems Blog) > PGP/GnuPG: DAE3 82E9 D68E 7AE4 ED31 1F8F 4AF4 D00C 50E7 ABC6 > >
P.S. I forgot! After running rfkill's unlocking, try to connect without rebooting the laptop first :) -- <-Manuel Escudero-> Linux User #509052 @GWave: jmlev...@googlewave.com @Blogger: http://www.blogxenode.tk/ (Xenode Systems Blog) PGP/GnuPG: DAE3 82E9 D68E 7AE4 ED31 1F8F 4AF4 D00C 50E7 ABC6
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