Marvell TopDog Wireless Problem on Gateway M6752 Laptop
January 3rd, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Figure I’d post this here to see if anyone has any ideas.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1903807
Working on a friend’s laptop – Gateway M6752 with Marvell TopDog Wireless card.
Followed the instructions in most tutorials on how to set this up (the ndiswrapper thing etc.).
lspci -nn looks good – marvell device is detected
sudo ndiswrapper -l says that netmw14x driver installed and device present
When I do iwlist scan, however, things aren’t so good: wlan 0 No scan results
Additionally, when I click the usual icon at top I don’t see a list of wireless networks detected. Whereas, my own laptop, also running 11.04 (but with a different wireless card) sees all the networks with no issues. I’m posting this because most tutorials stop with a successful ndiswrapper -l output. But they don’t provide a solution when the device is present but wireless networks fail to be seen. Additionally, when I tried to “force it” by using “Connect to a hidden wireless network” and I select WPA and put in my network key, etc., it times out without any connection.
