i have fc2 on a dell laptop w/ a d-link wireless pccard. i installed the pccard using ndiswrapper. card is detected; even the router (linksys).
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# /sbin/iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:12:17:1E:3C:7A
ESSID:"linksys"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437GHz
Quality:0/100 Signal level:100/154 Noise level:0/154
Encryption key:off
Bit Rate:1Mb/s
Bit Rate:2Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
Bit Rate:6Mb/s
Bit Rate:9Mb/s
Bit Rate:12Mb/s
Bit Rate:18Mb/s
Bit Rate:24Mb/s
Bit Rate:36Mb/s
Bit Rate:48Mb/s
Bit Rate:54Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
Cell 02 - Address: 16:F1:07:BA:24:7E
ESSID:"hpsetup"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Ad-Hoc
Frequency:2.457GHz
Quality:0/100 Signal level:59/154 Noise level:0/154
Encryption key:off
Bit Rate:1Mb/s
Bit Rate:2Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
Cell 03 - Address: 00:7F:D8:7F:41:19
ESSID:""
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Ad-Hoc
Frequency:2.412GHz
Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Encryption key:off
Bit Rate:1Mb/s
Bit Rate:2Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
Bit Rate:22Mb/s
Bit Rate:6Mb/s
Bit Rate:9Mb/s
Bit Rate:12Mb/s
Bit Rate:18Mb/s
Bit Rate:24Mb/s
Bit Rate:36Mb/s
Bit Rate:48Mb/s
Bit Rate:54Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=200
Extra:atim=0
------------------------cell 01 is my router! the others, i have no ideea what they are!
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# /sbin/iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412GHz Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=54Mb/s Tx-Power:10 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr=4096 B Fragment thr=4096 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-100 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
------------------------so i did:
ifconfig wlan0 up
but i cann't access the net! if i do:
iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys
the system crashes so i have to hold the power down.
is this caused by the fact that fedora is on 4k stack? i will try to get a bigger stack kernel and see how it works.
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