[SOLVED] cant find the wirless signal

[almusalimalmusalimah]

hello everyone

can anyone help me here

i cant find wireless signal

i dont know why but even if i use livecd i cant find it too

this is terrifying me

because i am afraid that my computer's wireless chip may be broken

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UPDATE

SOLVED by turning on its switch

[doktor5000]

Is this on cauldron or Mageia 1?
Please provide output of

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lspcidrake | grep NET

and as root output of

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iwlist scan

and

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iwconfig

[almusalimalmusalimah]

these is the results

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[b][color=#FF0000]bash-4.2$     lspcidrake | grep NET[/color][/b]
r8169           : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (rev: 06)
ath9k           : Atheros Communications Inc.|AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [NETWORK_OTHER] (rev: 01)

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[root@localhost mageia]# iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:26:91:E1:79:9F
                    Channel:11
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Quality=47/70  Signal level=-63 dBm 
                    Encryption key:off
                    ESSID:"AFAQShamel"
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                    Mode:Master
                    Extra:tsf=000000023c8be191
                    Extra: Last beacon: 237ms ago
                    IE: Unknown: 000A414641515368616D656C
                    IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
                    IE: Unknown: 03010B
                    IE: Unknown: 2A0104
                    IE: Unknown: 2F0104
                    IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
                    IE: Unknown: 2D1A7C181BFFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
                    IE: Unknown: 3D160B001F00000000000000000000000000000000000000
                    IE: Unknown: DD760050F204104A00011010440001021041000100103B000103104700104AE7A472689307BB9AAA9D802A38021C1021000842726F6164636F6D1023000842726F6164636F6D1024000631323334353610420004313233341054000800060050F20400011011000A42726F6164636F6D4150100800020088
                    IE: Unknown: DD090010180204F0050000
                    IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
                    IE: Unknown: DD1E00904C337C181BFFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
                    IE: Unknown: DD1A00904C340B001F00000000000000000000000000000000000000

vboxnet0  Interface doesn't support scanning.

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[root@localhost mageia]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"AFAQShamel"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:26:91:E1:79:9F
          Bit Rate=65 Mb/s   Tx-Power=14 dBm
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=49/70  Signal level=-61 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:15  Invalid misc:36   Missed beacon:0

vboxnet0  no wireless extensions.

[root@localhost mageia]#


thanks for the help Mr.doctor

but as i said before

UPDATE

SOLVED by turning on its switch

oh .... i forgot to say that i am using mageia 1