More progress, but still cannot activate wireless card connection.

[derek starr]

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
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