Wireless problems.

[Mark Haney]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 11:53 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
>> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>>
>>>> I will mention that when I reboot, and I look in 'Network' in GNOME,
>>>> that I see 2 wireless cards listed.  Originally, it showed 'wlan0' and
>>>> 'wlan0.bak', along with 'eth0' and 'eth0.bak'.  I don't know how that
>>>> happened, but I'm wondering if kudzu doing something.  Even when I
>>>> deleted the wlan0.bak option and rebooted, same thing.
>>> I think this is part of the completely crazy pre-NM WiFi setup.
>>>
>>> NM is crazy too, but in a different way.
>>>
>>> Did you try, incidentally, "iwconfig wlan0 essid <whatever>"?
>>> Do you have the ESSID set in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 ?
>>>
>>> Also maybe worth trying "iwconfig wlan0 MODE Managed" or "MODE AdHoc".
>>>
>>> Ps I'm not a WiFi guru, just a sufferer from it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> See, on my other wireless system (laptop running Gentoo), I always fire 
>> up my wireless this way with no trouble, no matter where I am. (Uh, the 
>> manual CLI way) The script I use has never failed me to launch iwconfig 
>> and then bring up the interface.
>>
>> In Fedora, even from the CLI I cannot get the interface to connect. 
>> It's UP, from the standpoint that I have an entry in ifconfig that tells 
>> me it's up.  The modules are loaded (and I've tried load/unload).  I've 
>> tried the other AP modes and still nothing. I just don't understand what 
>> changed in a week.  This is the one system I haven't wired because of 
>> it's location and so far I've not had trouble with it.
>>
>> At this point, I'm tempted to try Gentoo on it and see if that makes a 
>> difference, just to make sure it's not some weirdness with Linux in 
>> general with that card.
> 
> You might try the following:
> 
>       * Open system-config-network.
>       * Delete all wireless interfaces and devices.
>       * Reboot, and let the hardware detector re-detect them.
>       * Try connecting again.
> 
> 

Yep.  Tried that too.  No go.  It's the craziest thing.


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Mark Haney
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