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:
>
>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>
>>> To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
>>> From: m_d_berger_1900(a)yahoo.com
>>> 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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