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Re: Wireless card not showing up



Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum escreveu:
> Hi.
>
> This may not even be a Debian issue but i dont know where to start.
>
> I have a ThinkPad T60 running Lenny. Its normally plugged into an Ethernet port. I realized recently that only the wired network is showing up 
> in my networking tools, even though the machine does support WiFi.
>
> I rebooted it and i still only have my Ethernet card showing up. And when i look over the output of dmesg, theres nothing at all there for my wireless
> card, at least nothing i can see.
>
> Im absolutely sure theres a wireless card here; theres even an entry in the Network Manager Editor for an interface i sometimes use.
>
> Because its not showing up in dmesg i wonder if its a hardware rather than driver problem, but i thought someone hear might have an idea of where to
> start looking. I know the machine has never been dropped or damaged.
>   

Is there a switch or button to turn the wireless card on/off? Is it on?


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Eduardo M Kalinowski
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