[clue-tech] Ubuntu wireless problem

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

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From: "Angelo Bertolli" <angelo.bertolli at gmail.com>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Dennis J Perkins <
> dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > My wireless connection on my Ubuntu laptop doesn't work anymore.  When I
> > run ifconfig, I see wlan, but it doesn't have an IP address.
> > NetworkManager doesn't see even see the wireless.
> >
> > At this point, I don't know what is causing the problem.  Any ideas?
> >
> 
> What happens when you run iwlist scan ?
>

It says:    wlan0   No scan results.


> Yes, I have one idea, if you get nothing from the above:  I spent a good 2 -
> 4 weeks wondering why my wireless "broke" only to find out that laptops
> today have some kind of switch to turn off the wireless device.  They're
> usually labeled non-intuitively and in my case, it was a spring-loaded
> switch that can get flipped really easily.
> 

I'm familiar with this problem.  My work laptop was given to me with wireless disabled because someone had bumped the switch.

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