Re: Need help with wireless config.

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bruce wrote:
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


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Looks like a case of the blind leading the blind?

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


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