turning on the wireless card

[Barry Tepperman]

/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

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
> 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20060828/219b2cbc/attachment-0001.htm>