wireless woes on FC6

Manuel Arostegui Ramirez manuel at todo-linux.com
Thu Aug 9 14:40:05 UTC 2007


2007/8/9, Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com>:
> Over the past 2 weeks, I have not been able to turn on wireless using
> system-config-network on FC6. I get the following:
>
> orinoco_cs device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying
>  initialization.
>
> I am able to connect through windoze and then it sometimes works on FC6.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> many thanks and best wishes,]
> trotter
>

I never, ever, use the GUI to configure network, I have suffered some
bad experiences with them. I don´t know why, either Fedora or Ubuntu´s
network configuration GUIs sucks.

So, well, dmesg shows your card connected? If so, what about ifconfig eth1 up?

Cheers
Manuel.




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