12 thoughts on - Monitor Wifi

• yes. on 7.3, it still does that. the only difference is that it is left-click. in fact, as far as I can remember, it has always been done with a left-click.

  Fred

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  is that with gnome or kde dte?

  on a tower box;
  eth0 = onboard wired ethernet
  eth1 = wired ethernet card connected to a modem/router/wifi
  eth? = wifi/wireless card

  left click only shows the onboard wired ethernet and wired ethernet card connections.

  right click shows;

  [X] Enable Networking << grayed out [X] Enable Notifications Connection Information << grayed out Edit Connections

• Ah. Sorry, I should have said I’m using the Mate desktop. So you may have found a bug.

  Fred

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  would not say a bug. believe more like devs left feature out with 6.x.

  best bet maybe to pull some ‘war drive’ progs, which i have been considering for laptop.

  thanks for your replying.

• It sounds like your wireless card might not be being seen. You might want to check /var/log/dmesg to see what’s happening at boot, and go from there depending on what you find.

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  this is true.

  my bad, failed to mention that when i was able to see other wifi signals, it was via the modem/router/wifi. installed wifi card to see if it would catch any wifi signals.

  as for what box is seeing;

  ]$ pwd
  /var/log

  ]$ grep Ethe dmesg eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 5, 00:07:95:18:2b:bb
  8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
  8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28

  ]$ grep eth dmesg eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 5, 00:07:95:18:2b:bb eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf957cf00, 00:00:b4:be:4a:14, IRQ 5

  ]$ lspci|grep Eth
  00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] \
  SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
  00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. \
  RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev 10)
  00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR2413/AR2414 \
  Wireless Network Adapter [AR5005G(S) 802.11bg] (rev 01)
  ]$

  so, card is seen and readable. maybe needs drivers?

  also, not mentioned before;

  eth0 = xfinity modem
  eth1 = 2Wire 2701HG-B

• what do you get from …

  lspci -v -s 00:0c.0

  ?

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  ~]$ lspci -v -s 00:0c.0
  00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR2413/AR2414 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5005G(S) 802.11bg] (rev 01)
  Subsystem: Accton Technology Corporation Device ae24
  Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5
  Memory at 9ffb0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [sizedK]
  Capabilities:
  Kernel modules: ath5k

• ok, now…
  dmesg | grep ath5k

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  log]$ grep ath5k dmesg ath5k 0000:00:0c.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
  ath5k 0000:00:0c.0: registered as ‘phy0’
  ath5k: phy0: POST Failed !!!
  ath5k 0000:00:0c.0: PCI INT A disabled ath5k: probe of 0000:00:0c.0 failed with error -11
  log]$

• k, well, thats what you need to track down. you might dmesg | less, and search for that ath5k to see if there are any other clues around that POST Failed

  you might just need a firmware blob or somethign, no idea, I haven’t done wireless Linux in years.

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  John, i do thank you for all your help. greatly appreciated.

  before i digging any further into things here, i believe i will log onto linuxwireless.org to see what i can find in way of drivers for card.

  as for scanning for wifi in area, i believe ‘war drive’ progs will be best bet.

  intent is not for hacking, i want to increase protection for when i start using wifi with laptop, which is going to be some more digging because CentOS does not see wifi chip.

  all in all, i am going to have to educate myself on workings of wifi.

  thanks again.