problem with wireless on my Dell laptop

[Marc M]

1.  bring ethernet cards up and down

#  ifup eth0
#  ifup eth1

2.  stop and start the network services
#  service network stop
#  service network start


3.  configure your hardware and network settings
# system-config-network


Marc

On 4/12/06, BB Cao <pearlsmm at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> *Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>* wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 14:25 -0700, BB Cao wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I installed a dual boot (FC5+WinXP) on my Dell Inspiron B130 laptop.
> > Everything is great except I don't have the wireless function. When I
> > started on the kwi***(sorry, can't remember the name) and scan for
> > wireless, if reponsed with "iwlist is not in your path" and no
> > wireless found. How may I fix it? I searched a while but still no
> > clue. Your help will be highly appreciate! Thanks in advance!
> >
> Maybe others can answer based on the information you supplied, but I
> think more info is needed. Are you using NetworkManager and nm-applet as
> well and NetworkManagerDispatcher. What NIC does the machine have? etc,
> etc, and so forth. Please look up the name of the program you are using
> to scan for wireless before you ask questions like this on the list.
>
> Thanks Aaron! Sorry for not giving enough information! As you can tell, I
> am a newbie.
>
> After read your message, it did make me think a lot, I did try to
> understand a little bit more about my system. I realized that I need
> manually install the wireless card at first (Do I ?). When I tried to
> install the wireless card, I found no identified brand name on the list for
> my card, according to Dell the card name is "Dell Wireless 1370 Internal
> Wireless (802.11b/g, 54Mbps) for Inspiron 1300". When I installed FC5, it
> didn't ask me any specific settings for the network. How can I fix it?
> Thanks!
>
> Best,
>  Cao
>
>
>
>
> Aaron Konstam
> (210) 656-0355
> akonstam at sbxglobal.net
>
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