Compusa 54MB Wireless G PC Card for Fedora4
Min Chen
mcfreemind at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 23:33:06 UTC 2005
On 11/28/05, David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:
>
> mcfreemind at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > On 11/27/05, *David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)* < dave at davenjudy.org
> > <mailto: dave at davenjudy.org>> wrote:
> >
> > mcfreemind at gmail.com <mailto:mcfreemind at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 11/27/05, *Rey Cruz* < crxtasy_13 at sbcglobal.net
> > <mailto:crxtasy_13 at sbcglobal.net>
> > > <mailto: crxtasy_13 at sbcglobal.net
> > <mailto:crxtasy_13 at sbcglobal.net>>> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 19:04 -0800, Min Chen wrote:
> > > > Dave,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the info! I did "lspci -v" as root but got
> > > "-bash:lspci:
> > > > command not found".
> > > > I have Kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 on an i686.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Min
> > >
> > >
> > > It looks like you just did su instead of su - (gives full
> > path). I
> > > think you can just do /sbin/lspci -v as a regular user
> > instead of
> > > changing to root.
> > >
> > > Rey Cruz
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks, Rey.
> > > /sbin/lspci works but I couldn't find any subsystem for
> > "wireless
> > > adaptor".
> > >
> > > -Min
> >
> > With the card inserted you can also try:
> >
> > sudo cardctl ident
> >
> > or su to root (su -) and try the same command. I had a similar
> > problem
> > with earlier FC4 kernels (no PCMCIA support for my chipset) so be
> > sure
> > you are running the most recent kernel. If FC4 still doesn't
> identify
> > the card, it's possible that your PCMCIA controller isn't supported.
> > The card may not be either but "cardctl ident" should tell you
> > something
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > I got "Socket 0: no product info available" so FC4 doesn't
> > identify the card.
> > Which kernel version did you use?
> >
> > -Min
> > !DSPAM:438abc93295674065619034!
>
>
> # uname -a
> Linux fubar.local.davenjudy.org 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 #1 Wed Nov 9 19:01:56
> EST 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> You should be able to get the latest kernel by just doing "yum update"
> as long as you have another way to get on-line with the system (wire,
> built-in wireless and ndiswrapper). If not, you may want to look into
> pulling down the iso images for one of the unofficial FC4 updates that
> are available.
Dave
>
> I can't access the internet from this laptop yet. I can't sudo either
> after tried wrong root password three times. However, I can enter Netwrok
> Config (Desktop>System Settings>Network) by the same root password. Is there
> any way to fix it or do I have to reinstall Fedora?
Thanks,
Min
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