steven ney wrote:
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.
Thanks for getting back to me so promptly!
We try, we try. Don't get too used to it. It's sort of a slow day
here today.
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.
iwconfig should be in /sbin and is part of wireless-tools.
When you did it as root, did you log in as root or do an "sudo" or "su"?
If you did an "su", you have to do "su -", as /sbin is only in root's
path after a login (or a simulated login as "su -" does). Check the
path as root ("echo $PATH") and verify that /sbin is in it. Or, you can
fake it via:
/sbin/iwconfig -a
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