On Wednesday 19 April 2006 11:01, Lonni J Friedman wrote: >For me FC5 has been an absolute nightmare for wifi. Everything worked >perfectly for me with a orinico supported pcmcia wifi card in FC4. >Since upgrading, I can't get it to work at all. The card is detected, >yet it never can connect to anything on any network. I just did get it working here, on an hp lappy with a broadcom 4318 chipset in it. I used a combination of kwifimanager and hand editing of various files to get ndiswrapper running with the drivers from the XP install also on that lappy. I used a tool called wap11gui (cause thats my access radio) to generate the keys, and applied those to the keys-wlan0 file in network-scripts, disabled eth0 on booting, set the ESSID strings to match on both ends of the radio path, and its working fairly well now. kwifimanager apparently cannot write to the keys file or even to ifcfg-wlan0, so I had to do that bit by hand. IMO kwifimanager, while pretty, needs more developent to be able to handle all that. FWIW, system-config-network is a heck of a lot more broken than kwifimanager. It may be able to properly setup an ethernet port, but don't EVER let it touch a wireless setup. It knows nothing about ndiswrapper at setup time. >On 4/19/06, James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Is wireless support any better with FC5? >> >> I'm on FC4 now and have been using ndiswrapper with a Broadcom card >> for some time: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN >> Controller (rev 03). Recently my DLink DI-624 router died and I just >> got the replacement. Now I can't get FC4 to reconnect. I can scan >> the wireless network and see it, but I can't connect to it. >> >> I've also tried two PCMCIA cards, a DLink DWL-G650 with the Atheros >> chipset (I've never got this to work) and a CompUSA card with an >> unknown chipset (doesn't work either). >> >> I've also never been able to get WEP to work, so I've been stuck >> using no encryption and filtering MACs. I would filter MACs anyway, >> but would really like to use WEP, even though it's not the greatest >> security. >> >> All three of these NICs work fine when I boot to Windows XP. >> >> So I'm wondering if FC5 improves anything. I've heard that SUSE is >> much better at handling wireless, but I really like Fedora/Redhat. >> >> Any suggestions are appreciated. > >-- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx >LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
