no wifi networks any more

[BehindTheTruth]

since one week i can't find wireless networks anymore (most likely as an result of an update, but i was connected by wire at that time so i can't tell for shure)
tryed it with multiple networks of which i am sure were public and working

i think it got something to do with the driver cause neither netwolmanager nor iwlist find anything.
has anyone an idea how to fix this

kernel is 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64
nm version: 0.7.0
wirelesscard:Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter with driver ath5k (builtin in kernel)

[hyperspace]

Post the outputs of ifconfig and iwconfig.

[BehindTheTruth]

# ifconfig 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 00:18:F3:3B:96:2F  
          inet Adresse:10.0.0.3  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Maske:255.255.255.0
          inet6 Adresse: fe80::218:f3ff:fe3b:962f/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:33671 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:30368 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 
          RX bytes:31374563 (29.9 MiB)  TX bytes:10845108 (10.3 MiB)
          Interrupt:18 Basisadresse:0xac00 

lo        Link encap:Lokale Schleife  
          inet Adresse:127.0.0.1  Maske:255.0.0.0
          inet6 Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0 
          RX bytes:186744 (182.3 KiB)  TX bytes:186744 (182.3 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 00:15:AF:03:2B:5F  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  Hardware Adresse 00-15-AF-03-2B-5F-B8-A3-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Kollisionen=collisions
Sendewarteschlangenlänge=leght of sending queue

# iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=27 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B   
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.

pan0      no wireless extensions.

in my opinion not very interesting

[hyperspace]

Beauty is in the details.

So, it looks like your network interfaces are working. Are you using the NetworkManager (NM)? Have you seen some of the issues others are having with NM?

[BehindTheTruth]

the only other issue i am expiriacig is a regular disconnet when conntected to a special access point, but others (with different os's) have this too so i don't think its realated anyway.
Yes i am using the netwoek manager but so far i did not find an other issue to in the forum that i have too(they all could at least see the networks).

[hyperspace]

Have you tried:

iwlist wlan0 scan

?

[BehindTheTruth]

yes i have
see first post

[hyperspace]

Originally Posted by BehindTheTruth

yes i have
see first post

My bad. Sorry.