blue wireless light not coming on for Wireless

[Leo H. Buechler]

The problem I have is enable my wireless 802 program. Can I get some help?

[Steven E. Protter]

What kind of computer? Who made it. Are we talking about a wireless access point problem?

Details, details.

Please state the nature of your computers medical emergency.

Many laptops have toggle switches that disable wireless.

Look around for that and make sure its not off.

If this is actually a Linux problem, please say what distribution you are using.

good luck,

SEP

[Alex Lavrov.]

My light is actually green ...

Alex.

[Andrew Cowan]

Leo,

I have a Compaq Presario V4000 running Suse Linux and Windows, and whilst wireless works with both OS's, the blue wireless button is only active under Windows. I think this is a driver/utility issue. It was a bit misleading at first but does not affect things in any other way.

[Karl Rohwedder]

Leo,

can you be more detailed, is the blue light just not coming on or is the WLAN not working at all?

For the latter case, how is your wireless adapter connected, built-in , USB, PCMSIA,...?

Do you have a driver for it or do you use ndiswrapper?

regards Kalle

[Andrew Cowan]

Try running "iwconfig" and "ifconfig" to see if Linux has detected the interface. If it hasn't, and you have it working for Windows, download the latest version of ndiswrapper from Sourceforge, and use your Windows drivers. This method worked fine for me when I was using a Belkin PCMCIA wireless card. The only problem I had was writing an automated start script to attach to multiple networks.

[Karl Rohwedder]

Leo,

may I point your interest to the site

http://www.linuxquestions.org

which contains a lot of information.

May by it is new to you.

regards Kalle