Trying to get wireless card to work in FC6

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 21:52 +0000, Mike C wrote:
> 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)

Well for wireless connections NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDaemon is
the way to go. They run wpa_supplicant and it mostly just works.
> 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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