kernel-2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 doesn't detect my wireless card...?

Christopher J. Bottaro cjbottaro at alumni.cs.utexas.edu
Tue Oct 4 23:37:32 UTC 2005


Jim Cornette wrote:

> Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> 
>>I've been having a lot of problems updating to 2.6.12.  My latest problem
>>is
>>that it doesn't detect my Intel 2915 wireless card.  eth1 doesn't show up
>>when I type 'iwconfig'.  When I type 'ifup home' (home being the profile
>>that uses eth1 at my house), it gives me an error about a MAC hardware
>>address not being what is expected, then quits.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Also, I am having a hard time getting ipw2200 compiled for the new kernel.
>>Anyone have any insight on that?
>>
>>Thanks for the help.
>>
>>  
>>
> I used system-config-network and highlighted the device that I wanted to
> reprobe the MAC address under the hardware device tab. I needed to do
> this when I added a NIC which took over as eth0 before.
> 
> Someone might be able to explain a command line way to reprobe the MAC
> per device.

Hey Jim, thanks for your reply, but I figured it out.  I had to delete all
the ipw2200 modules and associated crypto modules that came by default with
the Fedora kernel.  I then rebuilt them all from source.  Once I did that,
my wireless stuff was fine.




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