On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 11:53 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Mark Haney wrote:
> >
> >> I will mention that when I reboot, and I look in 'Network' in GNOME,
> >> that I see 2 wireless cards listed. Originally, it showed 'wlan0' and
> >> 'wlan0.bak', along with 'eth0' and 'eth0.bak'. I don't know how that
> >> happened, but I'm wondering if kudzu doing something. Even when I
> >> deleted the wlan0.bak option and rebooted, same thing.
> >
> > I think this is part of the completely crazy pre-NM WiFi setup.
> >
> > NM is crazy too, but in a different way.
> >
> > Did you try, incidentally, "iwconfig wlan0 essid <whatever>"?
> > Do you have the ESSID set in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 ?
> >
> > Also maybe worth trying "iwconfig wlan0 MODE Managed" or "MODE AdHoc".
> >
> > Ps I'm not a WiFi guru, just a sufferer from it.
> >
> >
> >
>
> See, on my other wireless system (laptop running Gentoo), I always fire
> up my wireless this way with no trouble, no matter where I am. (Uh, the
> manual CLI way) The script I use has never failed me to launch iwconfig
> and then bring up the interface.
>
> In Fedora, even from the CLI I cannot get the interface to connect.
> It's UP, from the standpoint that I have an entry in ifconfig that tells
> me it's up. The modules are loaded (and I've tried load/unload). I've
> tried the other AP modes and still nothing. I just don't understand what
> changed in a week. This is the one system I haven't wired because of
> it's location and so far I've not had trouble with it.
>
> At this point, I'm tempted to try Gentoo on it and see if that makes a
> difference, just to make sure it's not some weirdness with Linux in
> general with that card.
You might try the following:
* Open system-config-network.
* Delete all wireless interfaces and devices.
* Reboot, and let the hardware detector re-detect them.
* Try connecting again.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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