Timothy Murphy wrote:
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).
I am becoming less of a NM fan. I had it running on this computer
and from /var/log/messages I learned it turned off eth0. What I saw was
the Internet stopped working :-(
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.
It is sure not a clear system. And I will try doing this without NM.
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".
I will try that. The kernel 3232 has a lot of different modules and I
expect I need to find the right one for my WiFi hardware.
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.
Maybe after I figure out which module works.
Karl
