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anumose	2010-06-28 , 00:12
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I cant get my n900 to show and connect to any wifi even though i have some around me so i wrote it here and someone told me he had the same problem but after flashing in roots it worked, so tried flashing but still cant get it to find any available wifi when i search even though i have some around me, someone plz help me

There seems to be a bug in the wireless driver on the N900. I later installed Wifi-switcher but when i turn it on it says: CANNOT ENABLE WLAN: IFCONFIG WLANO UP FAILED. Plz can someone help me solve this, plzzzzzzzzz

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shadowhood40	2010-06-28 , 00:26
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someone please help i have the same issue

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nickelby	2010-06-28 , 03:35
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There seems to be a bug in the wireless driver on the N900. My workaround although a little irritating is to install Wifi-Switcher to enable/disable the wireless card on the N900. After disabling it, reenable it again using Wifi-Switcher and you will see that you will have wireless working again! :-)

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anumose	2010-06-28 , 17:11
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I did that but when i try re-enabling it then it says. CANNOT ENABLE WLAN: IFCONFIG WLANO UP FAILED. Plz can someone help me solve, plzzzzzzzzz

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anumose	2010-06-30 , 18:13
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Can someone plz help me out?

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andyfrommk	2010-06-30 , 18:37
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Try

Code:

apt-get install wireless-tools

as root, (you may need to install the root.sh package if you haven't already) and see if the problem can be solved via the command line.

iwconfig should show if you are connected and
iwlist wlan0 scan should show any AP's in your area

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	cfh11	2010-06-30 , 18:47
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Also, did you flash the emmc?

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handaxe	2010-06-30 , 22:35
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I don't think iwconfig will work as the interface seems unable to come up.
At CLI type

Code:

 lsmod | grep wl12xx

and view output. It should be as follows:

Code:

wl12xx                 77696  0 
mac80211              153180  1 wl12xx
crc7                    1216  1 wl12xx

This is the first step to troubleshoot, viz are the drivers loaded and is the wireless card active.

If you don't see this, try as root, via

Code:

sudo gainroot

Code:

modprobe wl12xx

I don't think this will be what's the problem but let's see wots wot.

HA

PS: Also try asroot

Code:

modprobe -r wl12xx

Code:

modprobe wl12xx

Code:

ifconfig wlan0 up

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	schettj	2010-06-30 , 22:49
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flash to stock 1.2 including the emmc

test. Note how it works.

Thanks.

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handaxe	2010-07-02 , 15:41
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Originally Posted by schettj

flash to stock 1.2 including the emmc

test. Note how it works.

Thanks.

Newish to Maemo/n900 but not Gnu/Linux. If you will, help me understand the rationale here - is incl. the emmc simply the quickest way or is there something inextricably borked in the conf?

tnx HA