Problem setting up wired networking

Michael Francis mfran1952 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 14 20:12:04 UTC 2008


I read your howto good work!

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Friday 14 November 2008 00:08:00 Scott Robbins wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:25:56PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 13 November 2008 16:28:36 Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks, Michal.  I was mistaken.  The wired connection is realtek and
> the
> > > wireless is Atheros AR242x.  I'll have to read the bug report again to
> > > see whether it really is the same, although the symptoms sounded very
> > > similar.
> >
> > See my earlier post.  That one is fairly trivial now and your Linpus
> > settings wouldn't have helped you. (Different kernel, different way of
> > doing it.)
> >
> > If you want to do it manually, I have a page that has a link to an
> > excellent howto at
> > http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/rhwireless.html<http://home.roadrunner.com/%7Ecomputertaijutsu/rhwireless.html>
> >
> > Look for the link to the tutorial by the gentleman named Mike.
> >
> >
> > There's a great deal on the page about your card as well, but it's
> > almost all unnecessary with the 2.6.27 kernel, which supports it with
> > the ath5k module.
> >
> > Note that the page has nothing to do with NM, it's just about
> > configuring the card through various command line tools and files.
> >
> >
> I'm reaching the end of my patience.  I've struggled with this all week.
>  Now,
> trying to connect with wpa_supplicant I get selinux denials.  It tells me
> to
> run a restorecon - which doesn't work.  I'll turn it to permissive for now
> and
> see if I can get any further.  If I don't get anywhere today I'm bailing
> out.
> There's a limit to how much time I can give this, when I know I can get
> other
> distros working.
>
> Anne
>
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