On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 13:25 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > steven ney wrote: > > Thanks for the advice!!! > > I'm a tad embarrassed to say, but I don't seem to have iwconfig (nor > > ifconfig) on my system. I have the GUI versions (system-config-networks) > > but not the command line programmes > > Please bottom post in the future. > > Anyway, iwconfig and ifconfig are available to the root user only. You > have to be root to play with them. > > Log in as root (or use sudo or su) and run "iwconfig -a". See if the > card is listed. If it is, post the information shown and I'll help you > walk through it. If you'd rather take this off-list (to keep passwords, > ESSIDs and such a bit more private), feel free to email me directly: > > rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Thanks again > > No problem. > > > > > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:13 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>steven ney wrote: > >> > >>>Hello Everyone, > >>> > >>>I am trying to get a PCI/PCMCIA D-Link DWL 650 (rev J3) card to work on > >>>both my Fedora C3 desktop (PIII, 700MHz, 512M) and my Thinkpad X20. Both > >>>machines recognise the card/ chipset (Intersil Prism II) but after > >>>configuring the wlan connection (as an adhoc network), I can't activate > >>>the wlan network on the desktop. What is more, the error message flashes > >>>past so quickly that I can only make out it is allegedly not getting the > >>>MAC number its expecting. (As you probably can tell, I'm a noob) > >>> > >>>I have looked through the fora and have not found anything on this card > >>>and I would greatly appreciate any advice. > >> > >>I used to have one of those. Does iwconfig show the card? If so, > >>then the problem has to do with the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file. > >>There's no entry that matches the D-Link's MAC address. > >> > >>You can bypass that by using the iwconfig commands directly or by > >>using system-config-network to set them up. > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > >>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > >>- - > >>- The gene pool could use a little chlorine. - > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > > > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - If it's stupid and it works...it ain't stupid! - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for getting back to me so promptly! This is very odd. I tried (as root) iwconfig -a but all I get is an error message telling me that Bash can't find the command. I double checked yum and rpm to see if I have the packages installed (net- tools.i386, wireless-tools.i386 and NetworkManager.i386) and I seem to have everything.... I suspect I am missing something very basic and obvious here.
