Prism II card not working

[Satish Balay]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Chris Stark wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I haven't found anything by googling, but I'm not sure if this has been
> covered here in the list.
> 
> I have a Toshiba laptop with a built-in Prism II wifi card that's on the
> pcmcia bus. The card worked fine in both FC1 and FC2. Within the last few
> weeks, I installed FC3 on the laptop (clean install), and have had no luck in
> getting the wifi to work. I mostly work in KDE so I tried using the now
> integrated KWifiManager, but to no avail. I even tried fiddling with the new
> GNOME network manager, but that yielded no better result.
> 
> The card is recognized as a wifi card by kudzu, but none of the settings I
> enter seem to work. I've even tried adjusting the settings directly in the
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file. Nothing. I've removed the
> configurations altogether and started over (everything from /etc/modprobe.conf
> to /etc/sysconfig/hwconfig). Again, nothing.

When you tried to change the settings manually - did you switch off
'NetworkManager' service?

service NetworkManager stop
chckconfig NetworkManger off

Satish