On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 21:51 -0400, Robert L. Cochran wrote: > How do I get Fedora Core 5 to automatically detect and set up my wireless > connection? I can see that it detects the Broadcom 43xx (I think it's a > 4316) integrated wireless controller, but the runlevel 5 scripts don't > actually detect and configure the connection with the essid and encryption > key, then do a dhcp call to get an IP address, the host name, and the DNS > information. Are you using NetworkManager and nm-applet and NetworkManagerDispatcher? That works for me. > If I do this manually in a terminal as root: > > iwconfig eth1 essid hummr > iwconfig eth1 key open xxxx... > dhclient eth1 > > The wireless connection comes up and Firefox can visit websites etc. But I > have 2 problems: > > The hostname isn't changed from localhost.localdomain to the one I want for > this machine (it should be supplied by my dhcp server) > I'm only getting an 11 Mbps bitrate and I know this wireless connection can > do 54. > > and perhaps a third issue: > > The connection doesn't seem able to scan for available wireless networks, > either. > > Thanks for any advice that can be supplied. I did look for this information > on fedorafaq.org and fedora.redhat.com. I also Googled. > > Bob Cochran > -- ======================================================================= The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. -- Lord Acton ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
