Prism II card not working

Chris Stark chris at chrisstark.com
Mon Nov 29 04:28:46 UTC 2004


Hi Folks,

I haven't found anything by googling, but I'm not sure if this has been 
covered here in the list.

I have a Toshiba laptop with a built-in Prism II wifi card that's on 
the pcmcia bus. The card worked fine in both FC1 and FC2. Within the 
last few weeks, I installed FC3 on the laptop (clean install), and have 
had no luck in getting the wifi to work. I mostly work in KDE so I 
tried using the now integrated KWifiManager, but to no avail. I even 
tried fiddling with the new GNOME network manager, but that yielded no 
better result.

The card is recognized as a wifi card by kudzu, but none of the 
settings I enter seem to work. I've even tried adjusting the settings 
directly in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file. 
Nothing. I've removed the configurations altogether and started over 
(everything from /etc/modprobe.conf to /etc/sysconfig/hwconfig). Again, 
nothing.

Are there any known issues with wireless in FC3?

Should I just go back to FC2 and do an upgrade-install of FC3?

My FreeBSD installation on the same machine works, so I really don't 
think it's a hardware problem (dual boot).

Thanks in advance!

Chris




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