wireless connection not working

[Jan Brosius]

Hi,

I have installed fedora 8 on my Acer Aspire 9920G notebook. My internet adsl connection
(PPoE) works when
I connect my notebook with my modem with an ethernet cable (just the username and the
password are required).
I have a wifi builtin in my notebook. However when I unplug this network cable I can no
longer connect to the internet.
Wireless connecting works with vista (preinstalled on my notebook).
My hardware specs that I found in my technical handbook are:

Intel Wireless Wifi Link 4965AGN
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

How can I connect connect wirelessly to the internet?

Thanks for any help
Jan Brosius

[mike cloaked]

Jan Brosius <jan.brosius <at> skynet.be> writes:

>  How can I connect connect wirelessly to the 
>  internet? 
I don't know if this will help but see:
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mdc1/fedora_wireless.html

[John Summerfield]

Craig White wrote:
>  On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 23:35 +0100, Colin Brace wrote:
> > On Dec 29, 2007 8:12 PM, Jan Brosius <jan.brosius(a)skynet.be&gt; wrote:
> >
> >> Intel Wireless Wifi Link 4965AGN
> >> Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
> > First thing I would do is check dmesg to see whether the iwl3945
> > kernel module is getting loaded.
>  ----
>  As I recall (and I was hoping someone more experienced with wireless
>  would pipe in here), it's probably easier to install NetworkManager and
>  switch between that and Network when you switch from wired to
>  wireless...
>  
>  if not already installed...
>  
>  yum install NetworkManager 
Not on my computer, it rarely does what I want.

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[Craig White]

On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 23:35 +0100, Colin Brace wrote:
>  On Dec 29, 2007 8:12 PM, Jan Brosius <jan.brosius(a)skynet.be&gt;
> wrote:
>  
>  > Intel Wireless Wifi Link 4965AGN
>  > Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
>  
>  First thing I would do is check dmesg to see whether the iwl3945
>  kernel module is getting loaded. 
----
As I recall (and I was hoping someone more experienced with wireless
would pipe in here), it's probably easier to install NetworkManager and
switch between that and Network when you switch from wired to
wireless...

if not already installed...

yum install NetworkManager

*** for wireless ***
system network stop
system NetworkManager start
system NetworkManagerDispatcher start

and then use 'Administration => NetworkManager' to manage the wireless
interface

*** for wired connection ***
system NetworkManager stop
system NetworkManagerDispatcher stop
system network start

and you should be working again on wired connection

I don't know if I have the right names for NetworkManager and if I am
giving you the full picture since I don't do this myself and yes, this
is kind of a sloppy way to do things but probably the best way to
proceed on F8 system that switches from wired to wireless and back.

Craig

[Frank Cox]

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:12:17 +0100
Jan Brosius <jan.brosius(a)skynet.be&gt; wrote:

>  Intel Wireless Wifi Link 4965AGN
>  Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
>  
>  How can I connect connect wirelessly to the internet? 
In /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias wlan0 iwl4965

System-Config-Services
- Enable Network Manager services

System-Administration-Network
For both wired and wireless connection:
- any user can enable the connection
- use DHCP
- mode Managed

When connecting to a WEP-protected wireless network, you can just enter the WEP
password in the box that pops up on the screen.

When asked for your pam keyring password, I recommend that you use the same
password as your Gnome login password.  That way Gnome can automatically feed
it to pam as required.  Otherwise you have to enter that password every time
you log in so the network connection can be established.

You can change your pam keyring password by following the instructions here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/NetworkManager



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[Colin Brace]

On Dec 29, 2007 8:12 PM, Jan Brosius <jan.brosius(a)skynet.be&gt; wrote:

>  Intel Wireless Wifi Link 4965AGN
>  Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG 
First thing I would do is check dmesg to see whether the iwl3945
kernel module is getting loaded.

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  Colin Brace
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