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life-eternal:
Hi I installed PCLinuxOS on a lenovo R61i that was given to a friend of mine. The WiFi doesn't work and no wireless is turned on it seems. Ethernet is the only connection that works.

"@localhost ~]$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan1     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=off 
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
         
wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=off 
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
         
eth0      no wireless extensions."

the wlan1 is a D-Link WNA-1330 PCMCIA card

Thanks for any help.

muungwana:

there seem to be two wireless cards,how do you explain this?

the interfaces are up so the the cards are seen by the kernel and drivers are claim responsibility for them.Thats a good start.

on the terminal,log in as root and these these commands and give their output.

dmesg | grep wlan

iw wlan1 scan

iw wlan0 scan

life-eternal:
the other wireless card is on-board.

life-eternal:
[root@localhost ~]# dmesg| grep wlan
udev[291]: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan1
[root@localhost ~]# iw wlan1 scan
command failed: Network is down (-100)
[root@localhost ~]# iw wlan0 scan
command failed: Network is down (-100)
[root@localhost ~]#

muungwana:
those interfaces seem to be down,bring them up first with the following commands and then repeat the above ones.

ifup wlan1

ifup wlan0

why are you not using the onboard one?

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