David McCormick <dmccormick@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I upgraded my 32 bit laptop which uses ndiswrapper and my 64 bit > machine which uses madwifi by yum today and now neither one will > connect to the router. > They both show the network and that the signal is strong. Connection > fails on both. My wife's XP box connects OK so it looks like > something in the upgrade. I have tried disabling Selinux and the fire > wall that doesn't help. Anyone else had this problem? I just got madwifi partially working on fc5/amd64 with an ancient atheros based netgear wab501. I can configure the card by hand and it seems to work. NetworkManager can't seem to bring this card up correctly and system-configure-network never sees the card so one has to root around in /etc/... copying eth0 to ath0 and adjusting to taste. I recall finding 3 instances of the same file that was hard-linked. Copying eth0 in one location, editing and hard linking in the other got things to work. After generating that file system-config-network did see interface and allowed further edits using the gui. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-ath0 /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-ath0 And the file contents: # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=yes PEERDNS=yes TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=ath0 HWADDR= BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK= DHCP_HOSTNAME=myhostname IPADDR= DOMAIN= ESSID=mynetworkname CHANNEL=1 MODE=Managed RATE=Auto -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ Direct SIP URL Dialing: http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/phonedirectory.html
