wpc11 wireless with FC 5 doesn't work --

[Mike Zingale]

I've submitted a bug report on this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191326

This is a very popular card, so I am sure that others may want to add
to this report.

Mike


On 5/9/06, Mike Zingale <zingale at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Linksys WPC11 v. 3 wireless card which has worked fine out of
> the box with RH9, FC1-FC4.  I just upgraded to Fedora Core 5, and it
> no longer works.
>
> In /var/log/messages, I get:
>
> wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
>
> ifconfig shows the wifi0 interface with a HWaddr which is my MAC
> address with a bunch of 00-00-00-00-00 appended to the end of it.
>
> iwconfig shows both a wifi0 and a wlan0 interface.  I am not sure what
> the wlan0 interface is.  wifi0 is the one that I can control through
> system-config-network.
>
> Any ideas on how to get this working again?  This hardware has worked
> for years in Linux, so it seems to be a recent Fedora thing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>