Hello:

I'm using Mandriva 2010. on a Dell e6500.
Wireless worked from the Live Disk and after the install. No issues configuring. Connected immediately. (I was psyched!)

Either after a reboot or (maybe) an update, wireless no longer works. The network is "seen" in both Control Center and in the tray applet, but I can't connect. Connectivity very low.

- iwconfig output:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz
Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

- The iwlagn driver is what has worked with this card previously

Output from lspcidrake -v:

iwlagn : Intel Corporation|Wireless WiFi Link 5100 [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:4232 subv:8086 subd:1321)


lsmod | grep iwlagn

iwlagn 160740 0
iwlcore 175976 1 iwlagn
mac80211 149236 2 iwlagn,iwlcore
cfg80211 89956 3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211

Other odd symptoms:

In the tray applet, when I select to "Manage Wireless Networsk," ten networks are displayed, most are garbled. Only one lists my ssid.

I'm stumped. Something has changed. Thoughts?

Landshark

I've had strange problems like this on some machines when running the kernel from the Mandriva One LiveCD. The LiveCD installs kernel-desktop586 while the Install DVD uses kernel-desktop. I suggest switching to this kernel to give it a try. You can do this by installing the meta package kernel-desktop-latest, as in # urpmi kernel-desktop-latest

Thank you, Ongte. The step didn't work for me as far as my wireless goes, and I lost my video drivers as a result. But I rolled it back and will consider other kernel options that may help. I'm still puzzled that my wireless worked great from the Live CD and post-install, then something broke. I can see the AP and the connection, but the signal strength is almost nothing and I can't connect.

Hmmmm.

Thanks for your insight.