can't get wireless working on B2 updated to 406

[Stephen Bannasch]

At 10:10 AM -0400 7/7/07, Dan Williams wrote:
> > My WAP is broadcasting it's SSID and is using WPA/WPA2 Personal.
>
>We only recently fixed WPA support, and the UI currently doesn't show
>any WPA access points.  You should still be able to see them with
>"iwlist eth0 scan" though.

# iwlist eth0 scan
eth0   Interface doesn't support scanning

> > When I startup the XO I don't get any icons in the upper right listing available SSID's and noting appears when I open the local network icon.
>>
>> This is the result of running ifconfig -a:
>>
>> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>>
>> What else should I see?
>>
>> I assumed I'd see a wireless interface in the list.
>
>Whats the output of "/sbin/lsmod" ? 

# /sbin/lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
vfat                   12032  1
fat                    47900  1 vfat
sg                     33084  0
ipv6                  245984  16
olpc_battery            4324  0
battery_class           5156  1 olpc_battery
i2c_dev                 7300  0
mousedev               10572  0
joydev                  9120  0
snd_cs5535audio        16380  0
snd_ac97_codec         90752  1 snd_cs5535audio
ac97_bus                2176  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy           3556  0
snd_seq_oss            29248  0
snd_seq_midi_event      7008  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                46000  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          7532  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            39808  0
snd_mixer_oss          15616  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                71620  3 snd_cs5535audio,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
ov7670                  7872  0
cafe_ccic              22280  0
videodev               26400  1 cafe_ccic
v4l2_common            15616  1 videodev
v4l1_compat            12260  1 videodev
snd_timer              21252  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    50596  9 snd_cs5535audio,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               8000  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          9480  2 snd_cs5535audio,snd_pcm
psmouse                40268  0
serio_raw               6532  0

>Can you provide the output of
>"dmesg" too? 

It's attached to: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1969

>If you're not seeing the devices with "ifconfig -a", then
>the modules for them are not being loaded.

Thanks for the help. Chris suggested I send the unit back for further forensics but I'm happy to do more investigation until I can get the XO back to Cambridge.