John Dey wrote: > I now have a ipw3945.ko driver set up. The driver is being recognized > by system-config-network. But when I try to make the wireless eth1 > active I get an error: > > Determining IP information for eth1...failed; no link present. Check > cable? > > iwconfig eth1 from command line produces > > eth1 unassociated ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"robo6.jsdey.com" > Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: > Not-Associated > Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm > Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > 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:27 Missed beacon:0 I would look at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 to see if the entries there are reasonable. Does the machine the access point is connected to use dhcp? If so is the /etc/dhcpd.conf entry on that machine correct? Are you running dhclient? You could try using Ad-Hoc mode. Also run "sudo service network restart" after any change. The WiFi setup under Fedora is very bad. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
