No eth1 wireless

[David G. Miller]

Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> David G. Miller wrote:
>> > The "check cable" message is just a carry-over from pre-wireless.  It
>> > means that the wireless can't establish a link level connection.  With a
>> > wired connection, this is equivalent to having a working cable in
>> > place.  Thus, "check cable."
>>     
>
> It's still a silly message.
> It's a pity Fedora error messaging doesn't make any effort
> to send people to a place where they might actually get useful advice.
Yes, but at the point the message is reported the software only knows 
that the physical transport layer is borked.  It doesn't know what that 
layer is.  Instead of "check cable" the best you could get would be 
something like "check physical transport layer" or "no transport layer 
connection" which wouldn't be much more helpful.

I pointed the original poster at the thread discussing how to get an 
Intel Pro Wireless 3945 working (what lspci reports his system has).  It 
looks like there are a number of hoops to jump through to make it work 
that are specific to the 3945.

Cheers,
Dave

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