turning on the wireless card

Barry Tepperman pogofenokee at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 28 18:53:46 UTC 2006


Yes I have - that's when the card became visible under the hardware tab
of system-config-network

Barry
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 11:41 -0700, Grumpy_Penguin wrote:

> On Monday 28 August 2006 11:10 am, Barry Tepperman wrote:
> > /var/log/messages shows no messages about ipw2200
> > /sbin/lsmod lists the ipw2200 module
> > the ipw2200 comes up in hardware and as inactive in
> > system-config-network
> > and the iwlist scan does not come up with the wireless router - though
> > it works fine in Windows
> have you also installed ipw2200 firmware?
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 12:32 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > Dear Barry:
> > >
> > > This happens to me all the time if there is a little glitch in the
> > > configuration. Example. your WEP key is incorrect.
> > >
> > > When you scan the environment for networks, do you find them
> > >
> > > $ /sbin/iwlist scan
> > >
> > > Does it find the wireless routers?
> > >
> > > If it does, that means we have to work on the configuration of your
> > > network.  The FC5 system-config-network program is usually OK, but not
> > > always.  If you control the router, turn off encryption to simplify
> > > the testing.
> > >
> > > Why not do some diagnostics and report back.  First, is the card's
> > > kernel module being enabled.  If you do
> > >
> > > $ /sbin/lsmod
> > >
> > > do you see the ipw2200 module listed?
> > >
> > > Look in /var/log/messages and scan for the lines about the 2200
> > > module. Any info?
> > >
> > > If system-config-network doesn't get it right, sometimes I find the
> > > program wifi-radar does.
> > >
> > > good luck
> > >
> > > pj
> > >
> > > On 8/28/06, Barry Tepperman <pogofenokee at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > >  Well, it would have been nice if that had worked. It didn't. Have run
> > > > all the tests in setting up the hardware - everything seems fine. But I
> > > > keep getting:
> > >
> > > Paul E. Johnson
> > > Professor, Political Science
> > > 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
> > > University of Kansas
> 
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