Trying to get wireless card to work in FC6
Mike C
mike.cohler at gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 21:52:33 UTC 2007
kalinix <calin.kalinix.cosma <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Mike,
>
> Are you using the default configuration for wpa_supplicant? If yes, you
> may want to have a look at the configuration file,
> in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
>
> Also, you may want to use wpa_cli (again as root) in order to see
> whether the wless associates itself correctly (I think it does, but you
> can double check).
>
> And last, you may want to review your firewall configuration, both on
> your w-less machine and the machine you try to ping.
In fact I am not using wpa_supplicant - this attempt was just using "network"
(the NetworkManager daemon plus Dispatcher were not running)
I also turned off the firewall on this machine altogether (both ipv4 and 6) and
it made no difference - and I cannot even ping the wireless router from this
machine. All other wireless machines here can ping that router (by address). If
I do ifdown ath0 and ifup eth0 (wired) then I immediately get back to normal
wired networking.
I also removed the version I had compiled and re-installed kmod-madwifi from
livna - with exactly the same result.
Will try more avenues (I even tried ndiswrapper from livna but as soon as I
plugged in my card it hung the entire machine and I could not get out of X, nor
regain a boot using alt-sysrq-b !)
Mike
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