turning on the wireless card
Barry Tepperman
pogofenokee at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 28 18:10:15 UTC 2006
/var/log/messages shows no messages about ipw2200
/sbin/lsmod lists the ipw2200 module
the ipw2200 comes up in hardware and as inactive in
system-config-network
and the iwlist scan does not come up with the wireless router - though
it works fine in Windows
Barry
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 12:32 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Dear Barry:
>
> This happens to me all the time if there is a little glitch in the
> configuration. Example. your WEP key is incorrect.
>
> When you scan the environment for networks, do you find them
>
> $ /sbin/iwlist scan
>
> Does it find the wireless routers?
>
> If it does, that means we have to work on the configuration of your
> network. The FC5 system-config-network program is usually OK, but not
> always. If you control the router, turn off encryption to simplify
> the testing.
>
> Why not do some diagnostics and report back. First, is the card's
> kernel module being enabled. If you do
>
> $ /sbin/lsmod
>
> do you see the ipw2200 module listed?
>
> Look in /var/log/messages and scan for the lines about the 2200
> module. Any info?
>
> If system-config-network doesn't get it right, sometimes I find the
> program wifi-radar does.
>
> good luck
>
> pj
>
> On 8/28/06, Barry Tepperman <pogofenokee at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > Well, it would have been nice if that had worked. It didn't. Have run all
> > the tests in setting up the hardware - everything seems fine. But I keep
> > getting:
> >
>
> Paul E. Johnson
> Professor, Political Science
> 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
> University of Kansas
>
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