On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 16:29, Terry Polzin wrote: > On Thursday 29 April 2004 14:07, Ian Wallace wrote: > > I've searched the archives and tried numerous things however I don't > > seem to be able to get my wireless card to work with Fedora Core 1. > > > > I've downloaded the driver source from ADMtek and compiled it using the > > kernel sources for the kernel I'm running (2188.nptl). That works ok, > > and when I pop in the card I can see in /var/log/messages that it > > recognizes the card, and loads the 8211 driver. > > > > Beyond that though ... nothing. The power / activity light comes on, it > > tries to associated itself with eth0 however never receives an IP from > > the access point. > > > > I've tried the wireless howto's and am a i bit confused if this should > > be showing up as wlan0 or eth0, or eth1. Would someone be so kind as to > > point me the correct direction for information on how to configure > > this? Or where else things might be going wrong? > > > > TIA > > > > ian > > > > -- > > Ian Wallace <iwallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > What devices show up when you run redhat-config-network? > Mayby you need to restart networking as well I had to do some failure analysis on some wireless systems some time ago and found that there are at least a few "standards" and even cards from different manufacturers supposedly using the same standard may not work with each other (Google it I did). The key point then, is first make sure that your card(s) will actually work on your wireless network. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
