Add Wireless to Laptop

[Timothy Murphy]

Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:

>    Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Device or resource busy.
>    Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.

This is not necessarily an error.

>    Determining IP information for wlan0... failed.

This is an error.

I don't agree with Karl's approach.
NM is great when WiFi is working.
It just gets in the way if WiFi is not working.

In your case, I would stop NM, and run "service network restart"
(as root), and say "iwconfig".
This will tell you if your card is working.

If it is, look at /var/log/messages in the computer
it is supposed to be connecting to,
and see if there was an attempted link.

If there was, look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<whatever>
and make sure the entries there are correct.

Also, if you are using dhcp, look at /etc/dhcpd.conf in the target machine.



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