On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 08:06 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:

quoted

1. kernel and driver setup - use compat-wireless

2. set wireless interface to UP

	ifconfig <interface> up

3. find available networks using

	iw dev <interface> scan
 or
	iwlist <interface> scan

And maybe here the tools could emit "interface <interface> isn't 
up" as a more specfic error message ?!?

They do.

johannes