On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 10:30 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 11:34 -0500, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > > Hi, > > I installed madwifi-ng on my newly installed FC5 box. I could connected to > > my WEP protected network just fine using the 'modprobe', 'ifconfig', > > 'ifup', 'iwconfig', and 'route' commands. The problem is that I don't want > > to use those commands to connect. I simply want to use > > system-config-network to make a profile that I can use with the 'ifup' > > command. > > > > system-config-network doesn't see ath0 when I select "New wireless device." > > It only sees wifi0 when I select "New ethernet device." > > > > 'iwconfig' sees ath0. 'ifconfig' sees lo, eth0, and wifi0. modprobe.conf > > has an entry 'alias wifi0 ath_pci'. > > > > Something seems wrong. Why is there an "ethernet" device for my wireless > > device? Why does ifconfig see ath0, but system-config-network doesn't? > > Leave the wifi0 - but add a line exactly like it that says ath0 instead > of wifi0 > > Then you will be able to configure it with system-config-network and use > the standard tools to bring it up and down etc. > See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187640 --Rob
