Re: Fedora 8 Wireless Networking Out-Of-The-Box

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Fred Erickson <frederickson@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 23:29 -0500, Randy Yates wrote:
>> Does F8 support wireless networking out-of-the-box, including some sort
>> of driver scheme for specific cards/chipsets (similar to the
>> functionality provided by ndiswrapper)? If so, then how do I get my
>> NetGear WG311v3 (Marvell chipset) working without using ndiswrapper?
>> I installed F8 and it has not recognized it.
>> 
>> lspci -vvv yields
>> 
>> 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
>>         Subsystem: Netgear Unknown device 6b00
>>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>>         Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
>>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
>>         Region 0: Memory at fbc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>>         Region 1: Memory at fbb00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
>>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
> I just installed Fedora 8 on my laptop - an older Sony - with a Belkin
> (Atheros chip) pcmcia wifi card and it works out of the box - well, it
> did take a little tweaking.
>
> Here is my lspci for comparison:
>
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
> 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
> 	Subsystem: Belkin Unknown device 3010
> 	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> 	Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 128 bytes
> 	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
> 	Region 0: Memory at 34000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> 	Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> 		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> 		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
>
> Fedora saw my card during the boot process but didn't obtain an IP
> address. I had to set the wireless channel to match my router and start
> the NetworkManager service. The data light on the card doesn't blink
> when sending or receiving data but other than that, everything seems
ok.

Hi Fred,

Thanks for the info. How did you set your wireless channel? 

How did you know to start the NetworkManager service? Is 
there documentation from Redhat somewhere on this? 

I just tried starting the Networkmanager service and so
far (after about 3 minutes) it's still "in-progress" - doesn't
look promising.
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