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 some extra info that might help narrow this down -- i just tried again, and what i'm getting from /var/log/messages is: ... Jun 20 18:10:54 localhost dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801 Jun 20 18:10:54 localhost dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801 Jun 20 18:10:54 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 Jun 20 18:11:00 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 Jun 20 18:11:08 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 Jun 20 18:11:19 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14 Jun 20 18:11:33 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 Jun 20 18:11:45 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 Jun 20 18:11:55 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. ... so i'm about to google on that error, but feel free to enlighten me if you know what's going on here. it's weird that all of this worked just fine with a WRT54G router, but not a WRT54GL, even though i got all of the windows systems here running wireless properly. rday p.s. which interface would i be trying to activate/deactivate from the command line? wifi0 or wlan0? i'm used to just plain "eth0" from FC6.
