F10 not connecting to wireless

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Feb 9 03:40:19 UTC 2009


Ian Malone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm finally installing Fedora 10 x86_64 to replace a rather creaky
> Fedora 6, and I can't connect to my wireless router. I was actually
> looking forward to this working properly, as I had tried the Fedora 9
> x86_64 live cd previously and it Just Worked (TM).  But in F10, both
> x86_64 and i686, NetworkManager fails to get an IP.  Watching with
> iwconfig while it's trying to connect I can see that the access point
> is associating okay, but then it gives up trying to get a DHCP lease.
> I've attached stderr from NM running in no-daemon mode under both F9
> and F10 64 bit.
> 
> Unfortunately I had a go at disabling NM and using the old
> system-config-network approach too and this no longer works either.
> Any suggestions?
> 
> NIC is a Ralink rt2500.
> 
If you are using excryption (WEP or WPA) I have a thought for you. Configure the 
NIC to sart at boot, not use NM, and after you come up log in and do a
   "service network reload"
and see if it comes up. FC9 worked for me uptil a NM "upgrade" after which it 
stopped working. After complaining about it to no avail, and debugging it to no 
solution, I concluded that NM tried to do the attach before wpa_supplicant was 
running, and the crypto failed. I could be all wet on that but this line
   (sleep 30; service network reload) &
in rc.local fixed my problem. When there's a live CD I will try it with FC11 on 
that machine, or install to a flash drive.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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