wireless card doesn't work...

[Dave Sampson]

My recomendation, that may draw flames would be to forget about FEDORA's 
guis for now...

Get it working from the command line. even if you only test it using PING.

I find that FEDORA gui's work fine when the hardware is recognized on 
bootup. but special software I find battling the GUI's slow me down 
until I understand what the problem is. sometimes you need an updated 
driver, or try a different backend. then GUI is a frontend that works 
with different backends.

Myself I have to run a Shell script manualy to get my ACX100 chipset to 
work... it took me a month or so of tinkering, but I got the card to 
work. All I needed was the NDISWRAPER and it worked like a charm.  kinda 
cheating in the eyes of open source, but what works eh?.... then my guis 
recognized it flawlessly.

Again, I bid you fun and luck.

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Dave Sampson wrote:
>
>   
>> Try out this tutorial:
>>
>>
>>     
> http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch13_:_Linux_Wireless_Networking
>   
>> The wireless battle is a fun one... good luck
>>     
>
> Linux WiFi is not fun.
> Setting up and maintaining a WiFi LAN
> is a very painful experience.
>
> The tutorial above seems rather good,
> though it doesn't mention NetworkManager.
> I've been trying this for a couple of weeks,
> and have very mixed feelings about it.
> When it works it is fine;
> when it stops working it is very hard to recover,
> in my experience.
> Even re-booting often will not do the trick,
> at least in my setup.
>
>