Wireless does not work

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Thu Nov 16 21:22:21 UTC 2006


Hugo Pecora wrote:

> I have a sony vaio laptop, the model is vgn-bx195ep, it is celeron
> processor...i installed fedora 6 and everything works apart from wireless
> and dvd, the wireless is more important! When booting, it says that "the
> device does not seem to be present" but it appears in my hardware list in
> control centre.. Any ideas? Thanks

What does iwconfig say?
What is the content of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
(or perhaps eth1)?
Is the machine you are trying to link to using dhcp?

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