Wireless problem after update- Problem Solved

[Marius Ionescu]

Hi all.

Actually it was my fault. I played with some services (bluetooth and 
irda) and because I enabled them yesterday it seemed to cause trouble 
with my wireless card.

Marius

Marius Ionescu wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I discovered that the wireless works for about 3-5 seconds after I get 
> an IP address. After that, even thoug everything (gnome network 
> monitor, gkrellm) indicates that I am still online, nothing gets 
> thorugh. When I try "ping yahoo.com" it hangs for ever. If I do 
> ifconfig,  it shows an ip address, but with lots of TX/RX errors. Do 
> you think that selinux may have to do anything with this?
>
> I appreciate any suggestion,
> thank you,
> Marius
>
>
> Marius Ionescu wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I am using an orinoco gold pcmcia card to connect to my university's 
>> wireless network. In order to make it work with the encryption, I 
>> have to download the latest version of the orinoco driver (0.15rc2) 
>> and compile it.  I had no trouble doing this in FC2 and FC3 until 
>> yesterday. Yesterday I did an update everything using up2date, and 
>> since then I can not connect to the network. I use xsupplicant and 
>> when I do "dhclient eth1" I  obtain an ip address, and it seems like 
>> I am connected to the network, but nothing goes through. If I do 
>> iwconfig, I can see that I get also a key.
>> I have no trouble using the wired connection. I tried to stop 
>> iptables, but this didn't help.
>> Do you have any idea?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Marius
>>
>

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Marius Ionescu

Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Iowa,

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Phone: 319-335-3767
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