Re: [gNewSense-users] Metad on Yeeloong 8101: "iwlist wlan0 scan" fails

[Christophe Jarry]

> > I have bought Lemote Yeeloong 8101 recently and installed gNewSense
> > metad on it, without selecting "Desktop Environment" during the
> > install (intentionally), by following the instructions given at
> > http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS. Under
> > gNewSense, i then installed 2.6.32.3-libre-lemote linux-libre
> > kernel.
> > 
> > My problem is that wireless network doesn't work. "sudo ifconfig"
> > gives me "eth0" and "lo" interfaces, while "sudo iwconfig" command
> > adds a "wlan0" interface but then, "sudo iwlist wlan0 scan" gives me
> > the following error message: "wlan0     Failed to read scan data :
> > Operation not permitted".
> > 
The solution is to activate 'wlan0' interface by writing:

 sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

inside a terminal. I have added this information on the
http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Documentation/Wireless page, under 'rtl8187b'
section.

A big thanks to Federico
(http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2010-05/msg00035.html)
who resolved my problem.

Christophe