On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, John DeDourek wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 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. > > > > It looks to me like you are using the "madwifi" driver. Is > that correct? um ... i'm not sure. there's certainly no module loaded with that name. i'm working with a stock F7 system, on which i haven't loaded any extra networking functionality, and my current setup worked great under FC6 on this same system. > If you're not sure, I can suggest some ways to check. If you're > using some other WLAN driver, the following is not applicable. > > Are you using WEP or WPA for the security mode? WEP, which worked fine until now. rday
