Keyboard freeze, Wireless Weirdness

[Noah Silva [Mailing list]]

Hi,

This may be a silly thing, but in case you haven't checked.  When I
installed Severn, it found a wireless card, but installed it as just a
normal ethernet card (as seen in redhat-config-network).  I got it working
manually by setting the essid and other settings manually with IWconfig.
Later, I found that by completely removing and re-installing the card (as
wireless) though redhat-config-network.

I assume if running
/etc/init.d/network restart
fixes the problem, then the wireless specific options are set up properly
and you have a different problem.

I will poke around the network script tonight and see how it sets up
things out of curiosity.

thanks,
    noah silva

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Chris Elston wrote:

> I'm running Severn on a Dell Inspiron 8100.  To get it to even work, I had
>
> My other problem has to do w/ my wireless connection.  I have my network
> configured to access a secure network via a ESSID.  However, there is also
> a neighboring network that isn't restricted that overlaps.  When I boot my
> laptop, it grabs the open network and not the specific network I have it
> configured for.  If I restart the network (/sbin/service network restart),
> it grabs the correct network.  What is it doing differently at boot than
> when I manually restart the network?
>
> In a perhaps related situation, my wireless connection will randomly
> disconnect which then forces me to restart it over and over again.  Not
> fun.
...
>
> Chris Elston
> celston at corky.sapien.net