the scenario:
* linksys WRT45GL (WAP with 4 wired ports)
* dell inspiron 9200 with linksys pcmcia card
i've used this pcmcia card successfully with linksys routers for a
long time, and i just installed one of the above routers in the home
of a friend. both of their windows systems (vista and XP) connected
flawlessly, but now my inspiron can't connect.
previously, under FC6, in this situation, i would go into the
network administration dialog, delete the wired entry and create a new
wireless entry, which would also be labelled as "eth0". never had a
problem, at least under FC6.
now, with F7, trying this for the first time, i get these new
interface entries:
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"porthos"
Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:0B:84:25
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:xxxxxxxxxx Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"porthos" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:0B:84:25
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
Retry limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:xxxxxxxxxx Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:11306 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:24 Invalid misc:51846 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:3292 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3292 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:18159745 (17.3 MiB) TX bytes:18159745 (17.3 MiB)
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-06-25-0B-84-25-08-DF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:289538 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1025 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7111118 (6.7 MiB) TX bytes:207248 (202.3 KiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0xe100
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:25:0B:84:25
inet6 addr: fe80::206:25ff:fe0b:8425/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:940 errors:0 dropped:288569 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:981 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:167658 (163.7 KiB) TX bytes:198076 (193.4 KiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0xe100
and any attempt to run "service network start" just hangs.
is there a new incantation i need for this to work under F7?
thanks.
rday
p.s. the WRT54GL is specifically listed as a wireless "G", but it's
been configured to auto-select the speed. i'm assuming it's not
something as simple as a speed mismatch.
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