From leam at reuel.net Sun Jul 5 11:55:44 2009 From: leam at reuel.net (Leam Hall) Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:55:44 -0400 Subject: Newer internal cards for IBM T30? Message-ID: <4A5094C0.2020801@reuel.net> I'm trying to get into whatever century this is and realizing my internal network card is preventing me from WPA/WPA2 network connections. Any recommendations on internal (preferable) or external cards to look for that are IBM T30/Fedora 10+ compatible? Thanks! Leam From hilto1vd at cmich.edu Mon Jul 13 18:21:29 2009 From: hilto1vd at cmich.edu (hilto1vd at cmich.edu) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:21:29 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Webcam Help Message-ID: <20090713142129.ARV92038@salt.merit.edu> I installed Fedora 11 on my sony vaio computer. My webcam is not recognized by any software. I know it is supported because the webcam worked on a live distro of Fedora 11.... any thoughts ??? by the way it is a built in webcam From hilto1vd at cmich.edu Mon Jul 13 18:31:52 2009 From: hilto1vd at cmich.edu (hilto1vd at cmich.edu) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:31:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Webcam Help Message-ID: <20090713143152.ARV93070@salt.merit.edu> Sorry, I am new to this. I have a Sony VGN-SZ650N and all i can find about the camera is that it is the Sony Visual Communication Camera. Link to the VGN model site specifically the camera http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=VGNSZ650N&upd_id=2876&os_id=29 From rupak.bag at gmail.com Mon Jul 13 21:15:46 2009 From: rupak.bag at gmail.com (Rupak kumar Bag) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:15:46 -0400 Subject: Webcam Help In-Reply-To: <20090713142129.ARV92038@salt.merit.edu> References: <20090713142129.ARV92038@salt.merit.edu> Message-ID: <2d6475c20907131415r1e802ef8o3afcc928628d5f99@mail.gmail.com> Did you try installing Cheese. On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:21 PM, wrote: > I installed Fedora 11 on my sony vaio computer. My webcam is > not recognized by any software. I know it is supported because > the webcam worked on a live distro of Fedora 11.... any > thoughts ??? by the way it is a built in webcam > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-laptop-list mailing list > Fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hilto1vd at cmich.edu Mon Jul 13 21:56:22 2009 From: hilto1vd at cmich.edu (hilto1vd at cmich.edu) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:56:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Webcam Help Message-ID: <20090713175622.ARW08815@salt.merit.edu> Yes.... my camera was recognized on cheese when I was using a live disk of Fedora 11 to test things out. Cheese displays the no camera found message. From JFWILLIA at uncg.edu Tue Jul 14 20:01:33 2009 From: JFWILLIA at uncg.edu (Jeff Williams JFWILLIA) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:01:33 -0400 Subject: CN=Jeff Williams JFWILLIA/OU=facultystaff/O=uncg is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 07/11/2009 and will not return until 07/26/2009. I will be out of the country starting 7/11/09 and will not return until 7/26. Kevin McKinnon will be manning the queue during this time. From hilto1vd at cmich.edu Sun Jul 19 00:04:19 2009 From: hilto1vd at cmich.edu (hilto1vd at cmich.edu) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:04:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Webcam Help Message-ID: <20090718200419.ASA25076@salt.merit.edu> Is there anybody that can help???? This has become quite problematic. From sundaram at fedoraproject.org Sun Jul 19 08:50:15 2009 From: sundaram at fedoraproject.org (Rahul Sundaram) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:20:15 +0530 Subject: Webcam Help In-Reply-To: <20090718200419.ASA25076@salt.merit.edu> References: <20090718200419.ASA25076@salt.merit.edu> Message-ID: <4A62DE47.40905@fedoraproject.org> On 07/19/2009 05:34 AM, hilto1vd at cmich.edu wrote: > Is there anybody that can help???? This has become quite > problematic. Try posting to fedora-list instead to reach a a larger number of users. Rahul From dereklinux at gmail.com Sat Jul 25 20:13:34 2009 From: dereklinux at gmail.com (derek starr) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:13:34 -0700 Subject: How Do I activate wireless connection with Fedora 11 Network-Manager? Message-ID: <54d3b08e0907251313s44f1833aj84e1e94511fb6888@mail.gmail.com> Using the Fedora 11 Network-Manager, I would like help in activating my Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG |Golan| Network Connection card or device driver that came with my DELL Inspiron 1505 laptop computer that I purchased over 3 years ago. I want to be able to access my city WiFi network. I had very little problem connecting with my city WiFi using the Fedora 10 Network-Manager. I, now with Fedora 11, cannot seem to activate my wireless card listed above. I have to admit I do not really understand the Network-Manager that well. Can somebody help me? Derek Starr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bdm at fenrir.org.uk Sat Jul 25 20:20:18 2009 From: bdm at fenrir.org.uk (Brian Morrison) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:20:18 +0100 Subject: How Do I activate wireless connection with Fedora 11 Network-Manager? In-Reply-To: <54d3b08e0907251313s44f1833aj84e1e94511fb6888@mail.gmail.com> References: <54d3b08e0907251313s44f1833aj84e1e94511fb6888@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20090725212018.2f9fcce6@peterson.fenrir.org.uk> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:13:34 -0700 derek starr wrote: > Using the Fedora 11 Network-Manager, I would like help in activating my > > Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG |Golan| Network Connection > > card or device driver that came with my DELL Inspiron 1505 laptop computer > that I purchased over 3 years ago. > > I want to be able to access my city WiFi network. I had very little problem > connecting with my city WiFi using the Fedora 10 Network-Manager. I, now > with Fedora 11, cannot seem to activate my wireless card listed above. I > have to admit I do not really understand the Network-Manager that well. > > Can somebody help me? I have the same wireless card and am using Fedora 11, Network Manager is working just fine for me. If you are having problems the best place to ask is on the NetworkManager list, send mail to NetworkManager-list at gnome.org but you may need to be subscribed. http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list -- Brian Morrison "Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in the mud; after a while you realize you are muddy and the pig is enjoying it." From dereklinux at gmail.com Sat Jul 25 21:01:31 2009 From: dereklinux at gmail.com (derek starr) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:01:31 -0700 Subject: Thanks, but where can I find a good Network-Manager tutorial? Message-ID: <54d3b08e0907251401i489dbfb4u378b45fcecdf8f95@mail.gmail.com> To Brian Morrison Your reply to my question, in the text below, was very quick. I am glad that you said my wireless card was okay with Fedora 11. I just think I need a good .pdf tutorial on how to use the Network-Manager. Can you recommend a good document that I might read? I looked at the Network-Manager list, but it is huge! I did not know which entry to click on. Thank-you. Derek Starr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steven at lebruns.com Sat Jul 25 21:27:00 2009 From: steven at lebruns.com (Steven F. LeBrun) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:27:00 -0400 Subject: How Do I activate wireless connection with Fedora 11 Network-Manager? In-Reply-To: <54d3b08e0907251313s44f1833aj84e1e94511fb6888@mail.gmail.com> References: <54d3b08e0907251313s44f1833aj84e1e94511fb6888@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4A6B78A4.1080102@lebruns.com> On 07/25/2009 04:13 PM, derek starr wrote: > Using the Fedora 11 Network-Manager, I would like help in activating my > > Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG |Golan| Network Connection > > card or device driver that came with my DELL Inspiron 1505 laptop > computer that I purchased over 3 years ago. > > I want to be able to access my city WiFi network. I had very little > problem connecting with my city WiFi using the Fedora 10 > Network-Manager. I, now with Fedora 11, cannot seem to activate my > wireless card listed above. I have to admit I do not really > understand the Network-Manager that well. > > Can somebody help me? > > Derek Starr > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-laptop-list mailing list > Fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list > Do you have the driver and firmware for your wireless adaptor? My Toshiba Satellite A305 has the same wireless adapter built in. When I first installed Fedora 9 on it, I had to download the appropriate driver/firmware for it. One of the key components is the iwl3945-firmware package that is available using yum and the one of the Fedora 11 repositories. I use yumex and the RPM package can be found in System Environment ==> Kernel (when Category is set to RPM Groups). Check to see if the package is already installed or whether you need to download and install it via yum or yumex. You can also use the Hardware Browser app hwbrowser to see what driver is currently loaded for your wireless adapter. If all else fails, I got my wireless adapter working by googling for Fedora, the device name (PRO/Wireless 3945ABG or just 3945ABG) and/or iwl3945. Some combination of these keywords lead me to a webpage that helped my get the card working in Fedora 9. Since then, the package remained through an upgrade to Fedora 10 and had to be selected again (via yumex) when Fedora 11 was installed as a fresh install. -- Steven F. LeBrun Quote: / "There are 10 types of people in this world, those that understand binary and those who don't." / -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bdm at fenrir.org.uk Sun Jul 26 00:04:00 2009 From: bdm at fenrir.org.uk (Brian Morrison) Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:04:00 +0100 Subject: Thanks, but where can I find a good Network-Manager tutorial? In-Reply-To: <54d3b08e0907251401i489dbfb4u378b45fcecdf8f95@mail.gmail.com> References: <54d3b08e0907251401i489dbfb4u378b45fcecdf8f95@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20090726010400.01ee4188@peterson.fenrir.org.uk> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:01:31 -0700 derek starr wrote: > I looked at the Network-Manager list, but it is huge! I did not know which > entry to click on. I was thinking more of you asking a question about what exactly isn't working. Someone else asked about the firmware for the wireless card, you definitely need that loaded, which means installing the package. If that isn't working, then ask. If you look for iwlwifi entries in /var/log/messages it will tell you about things like firmware loading and NM attempting to bring up the connection. In addition you can try to bring it up manually using wpa_supplicant with appropriate arguments. I suspect that looking at /var/log/messages will help to start with. Once you can see that the firmware is loaded, check to see if the iwl3945 module has been loaded using lsmod. That should be modprobed with the standard Fedora and NM scripts, but might not be without firmware being loaded. HTH. -- Brian Morrison "Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in the mud; after a while you realize you are muddy and the pig is enjoying it." From dereklinux at gmail.com Sun Jul 26 20:23:07 2009 From: dereklinux at gmail.com (derek starr) Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:23:07 -0700 Subject: Downloaded Intel driver with 'System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software', still cannot activate wireless card Message-ID: <54d3b08e0907261323r7e7359aaxa520cf943c54e26@mail.gmail.com> To Brian Morrison and Steven F. LeBrun, Steven F. LeBrun, I appreciate your suggestions. I hope what I tell Brian below, is in keeping with what you suggest. Your quote: "There are 10 types of people in this world, those that understand binary and those who don't." with it's quirky humor, is great! I have a mathematics degree from the University of California. I am familiar with binary,octal,decimal and hexadecimal number bases. Brian, you are correct, I should have subscribed to the Fedora NetworkManager list, instead of the laptop list. My mistake! I will probably subscribe to that list tomorrow and document my wireless problem. I went to 'System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software' and hopefully downloaded 'Firmware for Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG' I have never used the 'Add/Remove Software' administrative tool before, so I did not what to expect. I am not sure I downloaded the driver to my computer. This was my last message on the '/var/log/messages' you told me to check. 'Jul 26 12:49:07 localhost yum: Installed: iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-1.fc11.noarch' Immediately after reading that message, I went to 'System -> Administration -> Network', but when under the 'Devices' tab, when I clicked on the 'wlan1' entry, the 'Activate' , on the menu bar above, was grayed out. I could find no way to activate 'wlan1', which had my Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG card. Any further suggestions or comments? I definitely appreciate the help that both of you have given me so far. Derek Starr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steven at lebruns.com Mon Jul 27 04:13:13 2009 From: steven at lebruns.com (Steven F. LeBrun) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:13:13 -0400 Subject: Downloaded Intel driver with 'System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software', still cannot activate wireless card In-Reply-To: <54d3b08e0907261323r7e7359aaxa520cf943c54e26@mail.gmail.com> References: <54d3b08e0907261323r7e7359aaxa520cf943c54e26@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4A6D2959.1050409@lebruns.com> On 07/26/2009 04:23 PM, derek starr wrote: > To Brian Morrison and Steven F. LeBrun, > > Steven F. LeBrun, I appreciate your suggestions. I hope what I tell > Brian below, is in keeping with what you suggest. Your quote: > "There are 10 types of people in this world, those that understand > binary and those who don't." > with it's quirky humor, is great! I have a mathematics degree from > the University of California. I am familiar with binary,octal,decimal > and hexadecimal number bases. > > Brian, you are correct, I should have subscribed to the Fedora > NetworkManager list, instead of the laptop list. My mistake! I will > probably subscribe to that list tomorrow and document my wireless problem. > > I went to 'System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software' and > hopefully downloaded > 'Firmware for Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG' > > I have never used the 'Add/Remove Software' administrative tool > before, so I did not what to expect. I am not sure I downloaded the > driver to my computer. > > This was my last message on the '/var/log/messages' you told me to check. > 'Jul 26 12:49:07 localhost yum: Installed: > iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-1.fc11.noarch' > > Immediately after reading that message, I went to 'System -> > Administration -> Network', but when under the 'Devices' tab, when I > clicked on the 'wlan1' entry, the 'Activate' , on the menu bar above, > was grayed out. I could find no way to activate 'wlan1', which had my > Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG card. > > Any further suggestions or comments? I definitely appreciate the help > that both of you have given me so far. > > Derek Starr > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-laptop-list mailing list > Fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list > Hi Derek, If your network device is controlled by NetworkManager, you will no be able to activate or deactivate it using system-config-network (the command you reached through the System menu). Run system-config-network, select your wireless card and then click on the edit icon. In the dialog page/General tab that appears, the first checkbox item is "Controlled by NetworkManager". If you deselect that checkbox, you can activate the wireless card back in the main system-config-network dialog (devices tab). Also, did you reboot your laptop after installing iwl3945? I am not sure if it is necessary but I always do it after installing new drivers, especially if they do not work after install before a reboot. Are you familiar with the /etc/sysconfig directory? There are two subdirectories, networking and network-scripts that are related to running networking. I do not advise editing any of these files directly unless you are sure of what you are doing. There are applets like system-config-network that will do the modifications safely and correctly since changing one parameter may require changes in multiple files and even the creation of new files. You may want to look at the files there to see if the data looks correct. Your system should have a file ifcfg-wlan1 (in multiple places in /etc/systconfig/network-scripts and /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices). There should be an ifcfg-* file for each of your network devices. That fact that your wireless card is named wlan1 instead of wlan0 suggests to me that there is something different between our configurations. If you notice values in these files that does not look correct, find out how to change the values correctly (probably with system-config-network or a similar tool). Do you know why your wireless adapter is wlan1 instead of wlan0? Was this an option you selected somewhere? Is there also a wlan0? Your other source of information is your boot log and messages.log. During each rebooting of my laptop, my wlan0 fails to initializes and an error message is reported. If you post the section of you messages log file and boot.log (if your boot.log is not empty) relating to starting/activating your wlan1, it would help. From my boot.log: Bringing up interface eth0: Determining IP information for eth0... failed; no link present. Check cable? [FAILED] Bringing up interface wlan0: Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. Determining IP information for wlan0... failed. [FAILED] There is no cable connected to eth0 so its failure is expected. The "Set Mode" error for wlan0 is a problem with one of the statements in one of the ifup-XXX scripts and appears to be harmless in this case. When NetworkManager starts up, it successfully starts my wlan0 connection to my intranet, getting an IP address from my DHCP server. This all appears during a reboot. Let me know if this helps or you still need or want more help. It is after midnight and I am not sure how coherent I am at the moment. :-) BTW. I like the "10 types of people" quote; I first saw it on a t-shirt somewhere. BTW2. When I run "lsmod | grep iwl", I get the following: [root at tardis default]# lsmod | grep iwl iwl3945 125016 0 mac80211 164720 1 iwl3945 lib80211 5064 1 iwl3945 cfg80211 30604 2 iwl3945,mac80211 The first column are modules that are loaded and the last column is the modules that use that module. Are all four of these modules loaded on your laptop? -- Steven F. LeBrun Quote: /"The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed."/ -- G.K. Chesterton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dereklinux at gmail.com Tue Jul 28 12:56:35 2009 From: dereklinux at gmail.com (derek starr) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:56:35 -0700 Subject: More progress, but still cannot activate wireless card connection. Message-ID: <54d3b08e0907280556m3de83935x592e4e5af172fd29@mail.gmail.com> To Steven F. LeBrun, Michael Franc Michael Frank, thanks for telling me about the 'system -> administration -> add/remove' applet. I loaded my Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG device driver with that applet. 'lsmod | grep iwl' now shows iwl3945 125016 0 mac80211 164704 1 iwl3945 lib80211 5064 1 iwl3945 cfg80211 30560 2 iwl3945,mac80211 Steven, I must have removed my wlan0 entry from NetworkManager by mistake. Only wlan1 shows in that applet at the moment. Before I used NetworkManger so many times. trying by experimentation, to activate my wireless card, wlan0 showed up in NetworkManger. Is there any way for me to get wlan0 back? now 'less /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices' only shows: drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 2009-07-27 08:42 ./ drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 2009-04-14 07:25 ../ -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 153 2009-07-27 08:47 ifcfg-eth0 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 198 2009-07-27 08:47 ifcfg-wlan1 -rw-------. 1 root root 5 2009-07-27 08:47 keys-wlan1 And now, 'less /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts' only shows one ifcfg* file: -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 254 2009-05-01 13:35 ifcfg-lo In the NetworkManager, under the 'Devices' tab, when I click on the 'Edit' icon, the dialog page/General tab that appears, the checkbox item for wlan1 "Controlled by NetworkManager" was definitely deselected. But then, When I try to actviate wlan1 in NetWorkManager, I always get an error message box, saying wlan1 cannot be activated. The dialog message box never says why wlan1 cannot be selected. I want to thank everyone for helping me so much with my problems, trying to activate my wireless card. I know you put a lot of valuable time in to preparing your answers to my problems. But I have to admit, I am getting sort of desperate! What should I do next? I definitely want to access my city's WiFi network. I am going to study the fedora-network-manager list next, even if I do not hear from you guys. Derek Starr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steven at lebruns.com Thu Jul 30 14:26:47 2009 From: steven at lebruns.com (Steven F. LeBrun) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:26:47 -0400 Subject: More progress, but still cannot activate wireless card connection. In-Reply-To: <54d3b08e0907280556m3de83935x592e4e5af172fd29@mail.gmail.com> References: <54d3b08e0907280556m3de83935x592e4e5af172fd29@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4A71ADA7.50806@lebruns.com> On 07/28/2009 08:56 AM, derek starr wrote: > To Steven F. LeBrun, Michael Franc > > Michael Frank, thanks for telling me about the 'system -> > administration -> add/remove' applet. I loaded my Intel Corporation > PRO/Wireless 3945ABG device driver with that applet. > > 'lsmod | grep iwl' now shows > iwl3945 125016 0 > mac80211 164704 1 iwl3945 > lib80211 5064 1 iwl3945 > cfg80211 30560 2 iwl3945,mac80211 > > Steven, I must have removed my wlan0 entry from NetworkManager by > mistake. Only wlan1 shows in that applet at the moment. Before I > used NetworkManger so many times. trying by experimentation, to > activate my wireless card, wlan0 showed up in NetworkManger. Is there > any way for me to get wlan0 back? > > now 'less /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices' only shows: > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 2009-07-27 08:42 ./ > drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 2009-04-14 07:25 ../ > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 153 2009-07-27 08:47 ifcfg-eth0 > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 198 2009-07-27 08:47 ifcfg-wlan1 > -rw-------. 1 root root 5 2009-07-27 08:47 keys-wlan1 > > And now, 'less /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts' only shows one ifcfg* file: > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 254 2009-05-01 13:35 ifcfg-lo > > In the NetworkManager, under the 'Devices' tab, when I click on the > 'Edit' icon, the dialog page/General tab that appears, the checkbox > item for wlan1 "Controlled by NetworkManager" was definitely deselected. > > But then, When I try to actviate wlan1 in NetWorkManager, I always get > an error message box, saying wlan1 cannot be activated. The dialog > message box never says why wlan1 cannot be selected. > > I want to thank everyone for helping me so much with my problems, > trying to activate my wireless card. I know you put a lot of valuable > time in to preparing your answers to my problems. > > But I have to admit, I am getting sort of desperate! What should I do > next? I definitely want to access my city's WiFi network. I am going > to study the fedora-network-manager list next, even if I do not hear > from you guys. > > Derek Starr > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-laptop-list mailing list > Fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list > Hi Derek, There is something else that you can try but it is tedious. You can try running and debugging the bash scripts that attempt to bring up your wireless adapter, starting with /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup. What I did was make copies of the scripts involved; ifup, ifup-eth, ifup-wireless and network-functions. Step one was to make sure that your personal copies call your personal copies (ifup --> ifup-eth --> ifup-wireless). Step two was to place many echo statements into your personal copies to track variable values and execution path. Step three was to run your personal scripts. There is a Step zero, run the original scripts (I believe you start with "ifup wlan1") to make sure that they fail to start your wireless adapter. If the scripts do not fail, there is no reason to try to debug them. If I had a bash debugger that would have allowed me to step through the scripts, I would have used that. Instead, I had to do the primitive way of adding "print" statements, in this case, echo statements. I also did not add all the echo statements to start with. I added echo statements first to track down which script was failing, and then added more as needed to see what variables settings were. The first phase was to make sure that there was an echo statement at the beginning of every script so that I knew what script was executing when the activation of the wireless failed. Echo statements to see what arguments were passed to different function/script/program calls helped too. Hopefully, this will tell you what is going wrong and provide enough information to fix it. One of the problems that I ran into was that the key was being provided preceded by "s:" when it should have been "0x". Good luck. Let me know if this helps. I will try to remember what else I did to get my wireless adapter working back in Fedora 9. -- Steven F. LeBrun Quote: /"One day a peacock. The next day a feather duster."/ --- Democrat Patrick Quinn, Illinois lieutenant governor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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