The hard disk crashed on my Dell Inspiron 6000 and after replacing it I've installed JUST FC5 - NO Windows. Have followed all the steps to download and install all the drivers and firmware I need to get my builtin wireless (Intel Pro Wireless 2200) working - and Network Control panel tells me everything is in place. But... when I go to activate the card it can't be found and I get an error message asking me if the cable is connected. I have read elsewhere that one bug in FC5 on this machine is that it doesn't switch the wireless card on and that the fix is to go back into Windows and switch it on there. Well, folks, I don't have Windows and really don't want to install it just for that. Any suggestions about how to switch it on within FC5?
Barry Tepperman
Barry Tepperman wrote:
The hard disk crashed on my Dell Inspiron 6000 and after replacing it I've installed JUST FC5 - NO Windows. Have followed all the steps to download and install all the drivers and firmware I need to get my builtin wireless (Intel Pro Wireless 2200) working - and Network Control panel tells me everything is in place. But... when I go to activate the card it can't be found and I get an error message asking me if the cable is connected. I have read elsewhere that one bug in FC5 on this machine is that it doesn't switch the wireless card on and that the fix is to go back into Windows and switch it on there. Well, folks, I don't have Windows and really don't want to install it just for that. Any suggestions about how to switch it on within FC5?
Barry Tepperman
Before you get to X windows, or init 3, and toggle wireless card on with the FN/Wireless keys. It won't work with X up because the keys will be processed by X and not passed to the MB firmware.
But always right after boot while still testing hardware, the FN (function)/Wireless key (hold down the function key and press the key with the wireless icon on it) works.
Well, it would have been nice if that had worked. It didn't. Have run all the tests in setting up the hardware - everything seems fine. But I keep getting:
"Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present. Check cable?"
Any other ideas? Anyone?
Barry
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 07:43 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote:
Barry Tepperman wrote:
The hard disk crashed on my Dell Inspiron 6000 and after replacing it I've installed JUST FC5 - NO Windows. Have followed all the steps to download and install all the drivers and firmware I need to get my builtin wireless (Intel Pro Wireless 2200) working - and Network Control panel tells me everything is in place. But... when I go to activate the card it can't be found and I get an error message asking me if the cable is connected. I have read elsewhere that one bug in FC5 on this machine is that it doesn't switch the wireless card on and that the fix is to go back into Windows and switch it on there. Well, folks, I don't have Windows and really don't want to install it just for that. Any suggestions about how to switch it on within FC5?
Barry Tepperman
Before you get to X windows, or init 3, and toggle wireless card on with the FN/Wireless keys. It won't work with X up because the keys will be processed by X and not passed to the MB firmware.
But always right after boot while still testing hardware, the FN (function)/Wireless key (hold down the function key and press the key with the wireless icon on it) works.
Barry Tepperman wrote:
Well, it would have been nice if that had worked. It didn't. Have run all the tests in setting up the hardware - everything seems fine. But I keep getting:
"Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present. Check cable?"
Any other ideas? Anyone?
Barry
Check the output of /var/log/messages to see if the firmware is actually loading on boot. You will see error messages there if it is not.
Doug P
Dear Barry:
This happens to me all the time if there is a little glitch in the configuration. Example. your WEP key is incorrect.
When you scan the environment for networks, do you find them
$ /sbin/iwlist scan
Does it find the wireless routers?
If it does, that means we have to work on the configuration of your network. The FC5 system-config-network program is usually OK, but not always. If you control the router, turn off encryption to simplify the testing.
Why not do some diagnostics and report back. First, is the card's kernel module being enabled. If you do
$ /sbin/lsmod
do you see the ipw2200 module listed?
Look in /var/log/messages and scan for the lines about the 2200 module. Any info?
If system-config-network doesn't get it right, sometimes I find the program wifi-radar does.
good luck
pj
On 8/28/06, Barry Tepperman pogofenokee@earthlink.net wrote:
Well, it would have been nice if that had worked. It didn't. Have run all the tests in setting up the hardware - everything seems fine. But I keep getting:
Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
/var/log/messages shows no messages about ipw2200 /sbin/lsmod lists the ipw2200 module the ipw2200 comes up in hardware and as inactive in system-config-network and the iwlist scan does not come up with the wireless router - though it works fine in Windows
Barry
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 12:32 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
Dear Barry:
This happens to me all the time if there is a little glitch in the configuration. Example. your WEP key is incorrect.
When you scan the environment for networks, do you find them
$ /sbin/iwlist scan
Does it find the wireless routers?
If it does, that means we have to work on the configuration of your network. The FC5 system-config-network program is usually OK, but not always. If you control the router, turn off encryption to simplify the testing.
Why not do some diagnostics and report back. First, is the card's kernel module being enabled. If you do
$ /sbin/lsmod
do you see the ipw2200 module listed?
Look in /var/log/messages and scan for the lines about the 2200 module. Any info?
If system-config-network doesn't get it right, sometimes I find the program wifi-radar does.
good luck
pj
On 8/28/06, Barry Tepperman pogofenokee@earthlink.net wrote:
Well, it would have been nice if that had worked. It didn't. Have run all the tests in setting up the hardware - everything seems fine. But I keep getting:
Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
On Monday 28 August 2006 11:10 am, Barry Tepperman wrote:
/var/log/messages shows no messages about ipw2200 /sbin/lsmod lists the ipw2200 module the ipw2200 comes up in hardware and as inactive in system-config-network and the iwlist scan does not come up with the wireless router - though it works fine in Windows
have you also installed ipw2200 firmware?
Barry
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 12:32 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
Dear Barry:
This happens to me all the time if there is a little glitch in the configuration. Example. your WEP key is incorrect.
When you scan the environment for networks, do you find them
$ /sbin/iwlist scan
Does it find the wireless routers?
If it does, that means we have to work on the configuration of your network. The FC5 system-config-network program is usually OK, but not always. If you control the router, turn off encryption to simplify the testing.
Why not do some diagnostics and report back. First, is the card's kernel module being enabled. If you do
$ /sbin/lsmod
do you see the ipw2200 module listed?
Look in /var/log/messages and scan for the lines about the 2200 module. Any info?
If system-config-network doesn't get it right, sometimes I find the program wifi-radar does.
good luck
pj
On 8/28/06, Barry Tepperman pogofenokee@earthlink.net wrote:
Well, it would have been nice if that had worked. It didn't. Have run all the tests in setting up the hardware - everything seems fine. But I keep getting:
Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
Yes I have - that's when the card became visible under the hardware tab of system-config-network
Barry On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 11:41 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
On Monday 28 August 2006 11:10 am, Barry Tepperman wrote:
/var/log/messages shows no messages about ipw2200 /sbin/lsmod lists the ipw2200 module the ipw2200 comes up in hardware and as inactive in system-config-network and the iwlist scan does not come up with the wireless router - though it works fine in Windows
have you also installed ipw2200 firmware?
Barry
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 12:32 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
Dear Barry:
This happens to me all the time if there is a little glitch in the configuration. Example. your WEP key is incorrect.
When you scan the environment for networks, do you find them
$ /sbin/iwlist scan
Does it find the wireless routers?
If it does, that means we have to work on the configuration of your network. The FC5 system-config-network program is usually OK, but not always. If you control the router, turn off encryption to simplify the testing.
Why not do some diagnostics and report back. First, is the card's kernel module being enabled. If you do
$ /sbin/lsmod
do you see the ipw2200 module listed?
Look in /var/log/messages and scan for the lines about the 2200 module. Any info?
If system-config-network doesn't get it right, sometimes I find the program wifi-radar does.
good luck
pj
On 8/28/06, Barry Tepperman pogofenokee@earthlink.net wrote:
Well, it would have been nice if that had worked. It didn't. Have run all the tests in setting up the hardware - everything seems fine. But I keep getting:
Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
Try this:
1. Login as root 2. telinit 3 3. Login as root again 4. Press <Fn> + <F2> -- this toggles the wireless feature on and off 5. Execute this: # /sbin/service network start 6. Look out for any messages.
If it doesn't work, go back to step 4 and try again.
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