FC5 wireless configuration ?
Gerry Tool
gstool at earthlink.net
Thu Apr 6 01:05:54 UTC 2006
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Can someone point me to a procedure for setting up a "wireless" adapter
> card?
>
> I have ndiswrapper and the Windows driver that came on a CD with the
> Linksys [wmp54g] PCI card.
>
> ndiswrapper -l
> Installed drivers:
> rt2500 driver installed, hardware present
>
> I did modprobe ndiswrapper.
>
>
> And iwconfig reports:
>
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> sit0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Mode:Auto
> Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:54
> Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-109 dBm RTS thr:2347 B
> Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> ppp0 no wireless extensions.
>
> This is as far as I got, don't know what to do next. I'd like to see
> some indication that it sees the router which is presently on an XP box
> about six feet away.
>
> Bob Goodwin
>
There are a lot of threads about wireless in the fedora-list archives
since FC5 was released on 3/20. I would start there.
Gerry
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