[arch-general] Wifi not working after kernel upgrade to 2.6.29

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Fri Apr 10 06:37:33 EDT 2009


Ondřej Kučera schrieb:
>> So this means we have at least 2 different problems. Can you increase 
>> netcfg's timeout? Does "iwlist scan" (as root) show anything?
> 
> I think I tried increasing the timeout (although I don't remember to 
> which value, I'll try again). I did try iwlist wlan0 scan and it worked 
> without problems (I didn't see my AP but that's because it doesn't 
> broadcast essid).

Ah, then I was right and you need active scans to find it, and those are 
disabled if you don't have crda and the right regulations set, see the 
output of "iw list".

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