* * On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Harish Pillay harish.pillay@gmail.comwrote:
It all started with Puppy Linux 5.2. I setup a LiveCD and jumped in to
get
familiar with it. I had some trouble with connectivity. I eventually
got
around to trying my linksys Wireless-G dongle. This showed some promise although I was unable to find the correct Puppy driver for the dongle and eventually removed the Wireless-G and shelved that project. Later on, I tried to log on with Fedora and found that NetworkManager was now
unusable.
Okay, after fiddling around with it for a while, I did a complete
reinstall
of Fedora (including reformatting the disk) and low-and-behold NetworkManager still doesn't work. I would have thought the Fedora
reinstall
would have installed the correct driver but apparently it didn't. I am
able
to send this because I have plugged the Wireless-G back in. (aargh!)
Has
anyone ever seen this sort of thing?
Actually, the easier way is to do the following:
yum reinstall NetworkManager*
and it will replace the existing NetworkManager.
I actually don't understand the issue you are facing. Your machine has some OS installed in the harddisk or are you working entirely off of a liveCD?
Harish
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Actually, I think it's a hardware problem with the Dlink PCI wireless card. Reinstalling NetworkManager was the first thing I tried. I've done two cold reinstalls with the same results. The Puppy Linux is a live CD. By now, there are no remaining traces on the Puppy Linux. I'm going to remove the Dlink card and have a look at it. Once in a blue moon, even reseating a card makes a difference. I don't believe it's a Fedora problem because on both the reinstalls the Wireless-G USB dongle works just fine. To me, it's just gotta be a hardware problem. I expect to fix it today. Will keep you updated.