bruce wrote:
Looks like a case of the blind leading the blind?hi bob... i'm in a similar boat. i've been trying to figure out how to get a fc5 dell laptop to talk to a wireless network for 4 months now with no luck... i don't have the 1st idea as to where to start. i can't really find a good set of basic steps to perform to get it up and running. if you can tell me the steps you've performed, i can try to replicate what you've done, and we might make some progress!! did you have to install other drivers for your network card.. where did you get the drivers from? -bruce bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bob Goodwin Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 9:46 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Need help with wireless config. I am still struggling with this wireless connection. In most cases system-config-network does a reasonable job of setting up configuration for me but I'm not sure what it's doing for "wireless?" The adapter card is plugged into a PCI slot but it keeps calling it eth1 or eth2, it looks to me like it ought to be wlan0? Wlassistant indicates it is having trouble with routing but I don't know what to enter there and there is no man page: wlassistant kbuildsycoca running... Loaded application options. DHCP Client: dhclient All executables found. iwconfig_status: /sbin/iwconfig ==>stderr: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. Wireless interface(s): wlan0 Permissions checked. ifconfig_status: /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 scan: /sbin/iwlist wlan0 scan Networks found: 1 Checking for active connection. Trying to get gateway address... ...from 'route' No default gateway. Checking for active connection. Trying to get gateway address... ...from 'route' No default gateway. Checking for active connection. Trying to get gateway address... ...from 'route' No default gateway. Iwconfig provides the following: iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-109 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Route shows as follows: route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.1.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 10.1.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 I think I should be able to browse to 192.168.1.1 and see the router set up screen from this computer via the Linksys WMP54G adapter card. Wlassistant indicates that I have a good quality signal on channel 6. But iwconfig shows zero signal? I guess if I could satisfy the routing requirement it would begin to work. Can anyone tell me what to do next? Bob Goodwin -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list I installed ndiswrapper via yum and used the Windows drivers provided on the CDROM that came with the Linksys WMP54g wireless PCI adapter card. I also installed wlassitant which looks like a useful adjunct to this effort, it will help in configuration. As I said initially, my remaining problem appears to be in routing? Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia |
