From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2015-03-27, Nyssa  wrote:   
   > Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >   
   >> What is your WiFi chipset?   
   >>   
   >> I dunno if you saw my recommendation to shut off the   
   >> machine disconnect the power supply and pull the battery,   
   >> count to 10, re-install the battery and reconnect the   
   >> power and reboot   
   >>   
   >> I find that many machines get into a mode where the WiFi   
   >> is not working but that this procedure will get it working   
   >> often enough to undertake the vast ;^) expense of this   
   >> task.   
   >>   
   >> Also if it is working under Windows you might want to look   
   >> for wrappers for the Windows driver.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Best of luck with the old Dell.   
   >> bliss   
   >>   
   >>   
   > I've been wasting way too much time trying to get the   
   > wifis to work on all three laptops. It's not an issue of   
   > the wifi not coming on or not being recognized by the OS,   
   > it's that it will not connect to available wifi hotspots,   
   > either open or password protected.   
      
   What are you using-- draknet or networkmanager?   
   drakenet has a "bug" where it will tend to try to connect to the   
   strongest signal, not the one you selected. I have complained about this   
   for years, and gotten no response from mandriva/mageia people.   
   But you can see this happening in the net-applet connection display.   
      
      
   >   
   > All three laptops have different chipsets, but all rely   
   > on basically the same pieces of Mandriva or Mageia to   
   > handle the connection process. So I've been poking around   
   > in wpa_supplicant, drakroam, and other pieces and running   
   > them via a konsole to see what's going on. So far, no luck   
   > pin-pointing the culprit despite trying to tweak various   
   > settings.   
   >   
   > The "middle" HP laptop has the same chipset as an earlier   
   > version I of the HP model have (the screen went dark on that one),   
   > and worked perfectly in Mandriva 2010, but I can't use 2010   
   > on the newer HP version because it has a different motherboard   
   > with the detested Nvidia video that won't play with the   
   > older Nvidia driver of 2010. Hence the move to Mageia 3   
   > for that laptop. Mageia 4 wouldn't work; the best I could   
   > do was a very unstable install that would freak out and   
   > lock up the keyboard, mouse, and touchpad too frequently   
   > for comfort. Other tries for 4.1 had problems due to a   
   > corrupted Nvidia kernel on the install dvd. Oddly enough,   
   > I did get the wifi working briefly on the unstable one,   
   > but the other problems won out and I wiped it and went back   
   > to Mageia 3.   
      
   But you still have not told us WHAT chipset you are using.   
   What has nvidia got to do with it?   
   >   
   > When I've got some time, I will make a new posting for   
   > the Mageia froup with the specifics of each machine, including   
   > chipsets and drivers used for the wifi.   
   >   
   > Too much to do, too little time, much of which is being   
   > eaten up with these laptop quirks.   
   >   
   > Nyssa, who thinks Nvidia should be banned from polite company   
   >   
      
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