WiFi Not working iwlist interface does not support scanning

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Hi all,

I can connect wired, but the Network Manager shows no suggested wifi APs (i tried the kill swith on both positions)

I followed the second sticky and got the following

https://forums.opensuse (dot) org/showthread.php/410319-Getting-Your-Wireless-to-Work

:
Wireless LAN Present
Kernel Driver: ath5k
Looked for missing firmware (both through yast boot.log and Konsole “dmesg | grep firmware” ) and found no evidence that i needed new Firmware.

But when trying to get AP, i get the following output (first i rooted, then i commanded “/usr/sbin/iwlist scan”) :

lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.

wlan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning : Network is down

eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.

having searched the internet i then tried doind eth0 up before re-running the command but that didnt solve anything.

Any thoughts?

Thanks, I am going to sleep now but will check back answers in the morning.

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Post the output from the following commands. Enclose the output within code tags (refer to the ‘#’ button in the editor)

Hardware and and active driver

/usr/sbin/hwinfo --wlan

Kernel output relating to the wireless driver

dmesg|grep ath5k

Show active interfaces

/sbin/ifconfig

Show all network interfaces

/sbin/ifconfig -a

Wireless device status

/usr/sbin/rfkill list
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Hi Deano,

Thank you for your help. I tried turning off the laptop without success. This morning I forced it to turn off, and on restart the WiFi worked…

Sorry that your time was wasted, but at least the issue is resolved now :slight_smile:

Cheers,

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No worries. Good to read that your wifi is now working.