Greetings, Since upgrading from FC4 to FC5 (x86) today, wifi pcmcia networking is completely broken, i can no longer connect to anything. I've spent the better part of the day today searching bugzilla and googling and have come up dry. Hopefully someone here will be my savior. Please bear with me as I provide some background on this problem. I've got an (older) Sharp MV10 notebook that I've been running Fedora on for quite a while (started off with RH9, and have upgraded to each new version). FC4 has been working quite well for many months, and I upgraded via the x86 DVD this morning. Since that upgrade, neither of my two wifi pcmcia cards work. The two cards in question are an old Aironet 4800 802.11b card (uses the airo module) and another old Linksys WPC11v3 card (uses the orinoco module). I've got two other systems (besides this notebook) on my own private home wireless network, and they are working fine. One of those systems is using a PCI wifi card, and is still running FC4. The other (3rd) system is an ancient HP notebook (has an old Celeron 400Mhz CPU) which has an identical Aironet 4800 card in it, and it was upgraded to FC5 2 weeks ago, and is working flawlessly. Both the ancient HP notebook (with the aironet card) and the Sharp MV10 notebook (with either the same aironet card, or the Linksys card) have the same network configuration (in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0). So based on all of this, I'm reasonably confident that the problem isn't my wireless network or my network configuration, but something specific to this Sharp notebook. Its also not a wifi signal issue, as the notebook is in the same physical location that its almost always in when it worked perfectly in the past, and on top of that, I moved it so that it was sitting on my desk, less than 1 foot away from the wireless access point when i was trying to debug this, and still had no luck. What makes this even more confusing, is that I've actually gotten networking working 3 times in between reboots, however its not consistantly working. So at this moment in time, it works, but if I reboot, i'm fairly confident it won't work again. To make matters more confusing, the first two times that I got it working, I was doing an interactive startup (hitting I when prompted), and at that point I was convinced that it had to be some weird timing issue. But then that stopped working too. The 3rd time, I switched cards (Airo to Linksys) while the OS was up, and mysteriously, when I inserted the Linksys, it got a DHCP lease, and I was off and running. I've also tried just doing a static IP on my internal LAN (which has also worked in the past with older FC versions) and that too fails. eth0 comes up, but I can't ping anything. I looked in the messages log, and this is basically all I see in terms of related output: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready eth1: link down ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready pccard: card ejected from slot 0 airo: cmd= 2 airo: status= ffff airo: Rsp0= ffff airo: Rsp1= ffff airo: Rsp2= ffff airo: cmd= 21 airo: status= ffff airo: Rsp0= ffff airo: Rsp1= ffff airo: Rsp2= ffff airo: cmd= 21 airo: status= ffff airo: Rsp0= ffff airo: Rsp1= ffff airo: Rsp2= ffff Is anyone else having this problem? Even better, does anyone know what might be wrong, and how to fix it? thanks! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
