On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:08:53AM -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> Anyone:
>
> Just installed FC6 on a Dell Inspiron 1200 having a Netgear Dual Band
> Wireless Card Model WAG511.
>
> I installed the madwifi and kmod-madwifi packages for the latest
> kernel--an i686 kernel; I made sure of that.
>
> But the hardware device is misconfigured as though it were an Ethernet
> card, and not a Wireless card.
>
> As a result, the system doesn't even know that it has a wireless card in
> place.
Curiouser and curiouser. My Lenovo R51 has an IPW2200 wireless card,
which shows up as eth1. system-config-network sees it as a wireless
card anyway. So there is nothing per se wrong with it showing up as
ethX.
What happens when you do:
iwconfig ethX
(where X is the wireless card)?
You should see something like:
[root@dragon ~]# iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Curleynet" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.374 GHz Access Point: 00:21:17:F6:FD:7F
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:6121-4A8C-A6A0-0EC1-B3EC-D5CC-43 Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=86/100 Signal level=-44 dBm Noise level=-87 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:47 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:5
as opposed to:
[root@dragon ~]# iwconfig eth0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
If you see the latter, I would suspect a driver or firmware not being
loaded.
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