On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 16:51 +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > I've just carried out a complete new installation of F8 on a system > which has been running various versions of Fedora for the last two or > three years. > > The system has a wireless PCI card which it uses as its only > connection to my home network (and, hence, the internet). This device > is recognised as "Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset". It > has worked just fine under all previous versions of Fedora but since > the upgrade to F8 the wireless networking doesn't seem to work. > > I'm using Network Manager (as I did with FC6 and F7) and my wireless > network is seen, but when I try to connect to it, the icon twirls > round for a while before failing. > > One thing I've noticed is that I seem to have three network interfaces > eth0, eth1 and wifi0. eth0 is the (unused) ethernet port and the other > two both seem to be the wireless card. I don't think I had that on F7. > > Since switching to using Network Manager a year or so ago, I seem to > have forgotten everything I knew about debugging network problems on > Linux. So any suggestions as to where to start would be most > appreciated. > > I've attached the output from iwconfig and ifconfig as well as lsmod. > I've also attached the /var/log/messages output which is created when > I try to connect to the network. > > Thanks, > > Dave... Is the wireless router using WEP? Is it using a shared key? I had a lot of trouble getting a bcm4318 mini wifi card working under F8 using ndiswrapper (worked on F6 and previous). I tried a lot of things and one thing that seemed to help was switching the router from a shared key to open system (which from what I read is actually safer). Just my 2 cents. Rick B.
