Wireless and FC8

[Dan Track]

Hi John,

Silly me !!!! :)

After correcting myself, I took out the ndiswrapper module, and
checked my modprobe.conf file, which now looks like:
[root at home ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 forcedeth
alias scsi_hostadapter libata
alias scsi_hostadapter1 pata_amd
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0

I thenn went to System --> Administration --> Network to see if the
device had popped up in there, but sadly I only saw the ethernet
connection. I thought about trying to create a new network connection,
but the only broadcom device listed is "Broadcom Tigon3", which isn't
mine.

Your next step is rfkill button, what is that? I tried it on the
command line but couldn't find a command, any pointers here would be
good?
The only reference I can find is with a module, lsmod shows:

rfkill                  9297  1 b43

Thanks again
Dan


On Nov 18, 2007 3:19 AM, John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:16:52PM +0000, Dan Track wrote:
>
> > Many thanks for your script. I ran it but the downloads failed, since
> > I don't have connectivity on the pc. Instead I downloaded your script
> > requirements on to my laptop then transferred via a usb memory stick
> > to the pc. I then ran the script you attached from the same directory
> > as the downloads and then the script ran fine as I didn't get any
> > errors reported. I then did a "modprobe ndiswrapper", but still dmesg
> > didn't show the wireless card. Any ideas? I've attached the dmesg
> > output after running the "modprobe ndiswrapper" command.
>
> Clearly you missed the point of the exercise. :-)  If you insist on
> using ndiswrapper, then you don't need to load the firmware...
>
> Please forget all about ndiswrapper.  Remove any references to
> ndiswrapper from modprobe.conf, and type the following command:
>
>         modprobe -r ndiswrapper
>
> Then observe this part of my former message:
>
> > On Nov 16, 2007 4:23 PM, John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > You may need to reboot or 'modprobe -r b43 ; modprobe b43' afterwards.
>
> Afterwords, you probably want to run NetworkManager:
>
>         service NetworkManager start
>
> With any luck, your wireless device should now be working.  If not,
> please check the state of your rfkill button.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> John
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