Wireless problems.

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jun 23 00:38:43 UTC 2008


Mark Haney wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>> I've had this F8 box working perfectly for the last 4 months or so 
>>> and for some reason now (and I assume this is due to the last round 
>>> of updates, but I don't know for certain, my wireless link (linksys 
>>> 54g card) refuses to come up and connect. In dmesg I get lots of 
>>> 'link not ready' messages.  And even though the card was set to 
>>> startup on boot, I had to unset and reset that option to make that 
>>> work.
>>>
>>> Even when I manually set I set it up, it doesn't want to come up.  
>>> The module is loaded, it just isn't behaving.  Could it be kernel 
>>> related perhaps?  I don't know where to start debugging this, since 
>>> it all LOOKS right.
>>>
>> First , what version of Fedora you using
>> Second , give the output of /sbin/lspci -v on your wireless card
>>
>
> Fedora 8.  (that's in the OP, but not real noticeable)
>
> lspci -v
>
> 02:09.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
>     Subsystem: Linksys WMP54G ver 4.1
>     Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
>     Memory at e8100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
>     Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>     Kernel driver in use: rt61pci
>     Kernel modules: rt61pci
>
> The only thing I've changed on this box recently has been the kernel 
> and associated updates.
>
> It's not changed position, or anything like that.  The AP moved about 
> 10 feet, but until the beginning of this week this box worked great 
> with the AP in the new spot.
>
>     
>
Restart your computer and see if the wireless card still works in the 
older Kernel.
Did you compile this driver to work on Fedora ?




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