Trying to get wireless card to work in FC6
Mike C
mike.cohler at gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 08:42:15 UTC 2007
Richard England <rlengland <at> verizon.net> writes:
> I have a a Toshiba laptop running FC 6 with uname showing kernel
> 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 running a DWL G650 AirPlus PCMCIA card
>
> rpm -qa reports:
> madwifi-0.9.3-1.lvn6
> kmod-madwifi-0.9.3-1.2.6.20_1.2933.fc6
>
> When a new kernel comes out, there is an understandable lag before the
> new kernel modules appear on Livna. Is it possible that you had the
> wrong module installed?
>
> /etc/modprobe.conf shows "alias ath0 ath_pci"
>
> I'm using NetworkManager to handle the network setup and everything is
> working fine. Had to enable NetworkManager and
> NetworkManagerDispatcher using "System>Administration>Services", initially.
Thanks Richard - I had the correct kernel and there was no i586 problem. Also I
had installed the latest livna version - I did have the two extra lines in
modprobe.conf and I also tried with NetworkManager but it made no difference.
I will try again with the livna rpms but use just the one line in modprobe.conf.
Also rather than just load the modules I will reboot the machine after doing
changes and then plug the card in - sometimes for some reason I noted that the
card initialises differently after re-booting compared to using say ifdown and
then ifup. At one point I had ifconfig and iwconfig showing the correct ssid
and key but it still did not associate!
Anyway I will try again and report more in a day or so. The main reason for my
original post was to see if someone had a step by step howto - so I could
compare with my attempts - to see where I may have gone wrong. I am not
entirely new to wifi on laptops and have ipw2200 on one machine, and ipw3945 on
another which I compile myself and which do work. It is just on this final
machine with no internal wireless that I need a plug-in wireless card - and I
did not know if it was my ineptness which stopped me from getting it going or if
there was a bug in either the kernel or drivers which was the problem... but I
will persist and keep going till it works !
Mike
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