On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:12:39 +0100, antonio montagnani <anto.montagnani@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx ha scritto/wrote il giorno/on 04/02/2005 23:06: > > >On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:53:18PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > > > > > >>Once my computer is booted up, I can execute the following series of commands > >>(as root): > >> > >># iwlist wlan0 scan > >># iwconfig wlan0 key restricted <my-key> > >># dhclient wlan0 > >> > >>in order to get up and running with my wireless card. I'm using a Linksys > >>WPC-11b ver. 3 wireless card with ndiswrapper, and my laptop is running FC3 > >>kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3. > >> > >>No matter what I do, though, I can't seem to get this working on boot. I've > >>tried creating the new wireless device in the network configuration tool, > >>entering all of the proper settings in the "Wireless" tab. The computer seems > >>to recognize the wireless card and reports a strong signal, but I can't see > >>the SSID for my WAP and I certainly can't get an IP address from the DHCP > >>server. > >> > >>What am I missing? > >> > >> > >> > >If you have your card properly configured as wlan0 through the > >system-config-network gui then ifup wlan0 should bring it up and > >ifdown wlan0 bring it down. > >Do you have a eth0 interface on you machine. We have found that even > >if the machine is not connected with a wire the eth0 interface will be > >brought up and prevent the wlan0 interface from coming up. > > > >Now if anyone out there knows how to keep the eth0 interface from > >coming up on boot even when there is no line plugged into it I would > >like to hear about it. > > > > > by system-control-network, I assume that you should be able to prevent > eth0 to come up at boottime. > > let me know... > > -- > > Antonio M. > > =================================================================== > Working with Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 on Redhat Linux Fedora Core 3 > =================================================================== > =================================================================== > Uso Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 su Redhat Linux Fedora Core 3 > www.montagnani.org > =================================================================== > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Try using Networkmanager Go to this url and see if this helps http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/jim_lawrence/network_manager/ If for some reason NM doesn't start, open up the terminal and type in NetworkManangerInfo If you use a encrypted network and NM finds your AP it will prompt you for the key Hope all this helps -- Jim Lawrence Registered Linux User: #376813 ******************************************************** When I'm feeling down, I like to whistle. It makes the neighbor's dog run to the end of his chain and gag himself. ************************************
