No eth1 wireless

Guillermo Garron guillermo.fedora at gmail.com
Mon May 14 06:54:44 UTC 2007


On 5/13/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/05/07, Guillermo Garron <guillermo.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/13/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I seem to have corrupted system-config-network while playing with
> > > firestarter. I've since gone back to the default Fedora firewall
> > > (system-config-securitylevel). I see two devices in the Devices tab:
> > > eth0 (Type: Ethernet), which is active, and eth1 (Type: Wireless),
> > > which is inactive. When I try to activate eth1, I get this
> > > inappropriate error:
> > > Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present.  Check cable?
> > >
> > > Why does it think that there should be a cable? Before rebooting I was
> > > getting this error:
> > > When I try to activate eth1 (wireless):
> > > Determining IP information for eth1...dhclient(4733) is already
> > > running - exiting.
> > > exiting.
> > >  failed.
> > >
> > > How can I start eth1? Note that SELinux is set to Permissive.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Dotan Cohen
> > Hi Dotan,
> >
> > It looks weird, but maybe you could try removing the eth1 device from
> > system-config-network, reboot your pc, so it is recognized again, and
> > see if it gets configured properly.
> >
> > I have done that before on Fedora in my T30 IBM.
> >
> > hope this helps you.
>
> Thanks, Guillermo. It did not find the wireless adaptor after deleting
> it and rebooting... Is there a "find new hardware" option somewhere?
Sorry Dotan,

That never happened to me, it just appear again, but as, Jim says you
can add it again.
-- 
Guillermo Garron
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