Not sure if this addresses your particular situation, but in my
struggles to get WiFi to work with WPA, with both NDISWRAPPER and the
cursed BCM mess I found this little gem which works for both FC6, F8 and
now I'm on CentOS5 with both ndiswrapper and Madwifi driving an Atheros
PCI card.
The interface comes up @ boot and when I login all is well. I use
kwifimanager as a quick and dirty method to monitor the WiFi for
connection and speed info.
chkconfig {NetworkManager,NetworkManagerDispatcher,wpa_supplicant} off
add the following to the end of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless
# wsrcc hack start.
# This seems to be the only way to get wpa networking and dhcpclient to work
# properly at boot
if [ ! -S /var/run/wpa_supplicant/$DEVICE ] ; then
wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i$DEVICE
-Dwext -B
fi
# wsrcc end end
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:29:47 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:54:04 +0000, Da Rock wrote:
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To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
From: m_d_berger_1900@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:48:05 +0000 Subject: WiFi LAN access, but
not WAN access.
On FC8 with my dual boot laptop, in the process of testing
wpa_supplicant with my Actiontec router, I had a situation in which I
could ping within my LAN, but but not the WAN. Other boxes on my LAN,
had no problem contacting the WAN. So I shut of the encryption, and
made unencrypted WiFi contact. Still, I could contact the LAN but not
the WAN. Then I made a wired Ethernet connection from the test laptop.
In that case, everything worked for WAN and LAN. Then I went back to
wireless. It all worked, with and without encryption.
So I am living happily ever after, but I fear I may be in a fool's
paradise. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Mike.
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What is your dhcp settings for the wifi? Same as lan? Also check route
settings- is the gateway correct for wifi? I had to set my dhclient to
supersede gateway so that I had wan access on both lan and wlan.
Hope that helps- maybe. Any further info (inc. vague topology) and or
config might help to work out your sit.
[...]
I am running a dual boot laptop with WinXP and FC8. WinXP makes the
connection with no problem. I have tested both DHCP and static IP, and
I get the same results.
I have, I think, solved the problem. It appears that both
wpa_supplicant and Network Service Control must me manually activated.
Network Service Control showing "Active" is not good enough. Depending
on the sequence of things, it may be necessary to click Deactivate (if
this closes the window, reopen it) and then click Activate. It then
becomes fully functional.
I hope this is cleaned up in future versions.
Mike.
I add that while this worked for my Actiontec router, I have not
gotten by Vigor 2910G to work with it.
Mike.
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