[SOLVED] wireless network not showing up in Network Center / applet

[aguila]

 Hi all,

while everything works just fine with my wifi at home, I'm unable to see the wireless network in our holiday home.

Another laptop with xp shows and connects to the network just fine and so does my android mobile phone.

Any hints what I might enable / disable / do to see the network in network center?

the network applt shows wlan0 as inactive which I'm not sure if it is because of not beimg connected or because it's disabled.

Running Kde fully updated with intel wireless which works ootb at home.

thanks for any hints.

aguila

[menotu]

Have you tried removing the current "connection" and creating a new one?

May want to restart after the removal so you have a "blank" canvas.........

[aguila]

UPDATE:

back home now and my wifi which shows and works on my other PCLOS install (also KDE, fully updated) doesn't show on the laptop in question anymore. It gave problems when I tried it in my holidays, no doesn't show my home wifi either.

Even removing the current connection and rebooting doesn't do anything.

What can I do?
     Do I need to reinstall / remove anything to make my wifi work again?
     How can I make sure there's no hardware failure? (It worked before I left for holidays and only failed there, no impact to the computer)

Thank you very much in advance for any help and suggestions offered.

Aguila

[AS]

Hi aguila,

try to check if your wireless card is actually recognized, using the command: lspci, or lsusb if it's a USB card,

should see something similar to:

06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)

AS

[aguila]

§$#%&@@%&$#*!!!

Well, to be honest, the solution was quite easy:

I just moved the switch for wireless on the front of my laptop to ON, and voilá!

I AM SO DUMB SOMETIMES!!!! 

Please don't tell this to anybody that might know me..... 

[AS]

Oh! Don't worry, it' is only recorded on the forum .. and searchable by google ... and when the thread will be removed it will be cached on the net forever! 

Glad you solved! 

AS

[aguila]

Thanks for comforting me, as 

May this help someone with the same "error"