aKarl Larsen wrote: > It has been awhile since I cared what the kernel has in it. But as I > thought "lsmod" will list everything in the kernel and it still does. I > did a lsmod and found the modules for WiFi were not in the kernel. The > kernel I am using on the laptop is supposed to have all the WiFi modules. lsmod lists the modules that are loaded. In the case of distribution kernels this is a tiny proportion of the modules in (or with) the kernel. > So I did a modprobe ipw2100 and it seemed to work. I looked with > lsmod and sure enough the it and ieee81102 was also in the kernel. It > didn't start WiFi working yet. I looked at /var/log/messages and it > showed both modules loading properly but for some reason NetworkManager > was not interested in finding WiFi. I need to do something else. This is a minority opinion, but I am not a great fan of NM (NetworkManager). If WiFi is working then NM isn't really necessary; and if it is not working then NM just adds another layer of confusion to an already confused situation. Personally, I would stop NM, look at the entries in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* and make sure they are reasonable, and then say "service network restart". > Be aware that if you modprobe a module into the kernel it goes away > with a reboot. You can probably make an entry in modprobe.conf to make sure it is loaded. -- 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
