On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 16:31 +0100, Robert McBroom (TNWestTex) wrote: > > > > Frank Cox wrote: > > > > I also tried setting this up directly with system-config-network instead of > > Network Manager. I keep getting told "Check cable?" no matter what options I > > try. > > > > Sounds like system-config-network is using eth? while the wireless driver uses something different. > > Dell laptop I'm playing with uses wlan0 instead of eth0 for the wireless. Other wireless cards use other designations. See what you have in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ > > iwconfig from the command line in a terminal window will let you see the wireless setup and change some parameters. Getting the encryption keys just right between an F8 laptop and many routers seems to be a problem. Anything beyond 64bit WEP has me stumped so far. > Several questions occur to me: 1. What makes you think you are using 64bit wep? 2. It makes no sees for the essid to show up in the ifcfg-x file. How would that support connecting in a different environments? It does not appear in my ifcfg-eth1. 2. You seem to have network running with MN. Shut down network. -- ======================================================================= UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn quesy=================================================================== Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
