No eth1 wireless

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun May 13 19:30:33 UTC 2007


On 13/05/07, Guillermo Garron <guillermo.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/13/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I seem to have corrupted system-config-network while playing with
> > firestarter. I've since gone back to the default Fedora firewall
> > (system-config-securitylevel). I see two devices in the Devices tab:
> > eth0 (Type: Ethernet), which is active, and eth1 (Type: Wireless),
> > which is inactive. When I try to activate eth1, I get this
> > inappropriate error:
> > Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present.  Check cable?
> >
> > Why does it think that there should be a cable? Before rebooting I was
> > getting this error:
> > When I try to activate eth1 (wireless):
> > Determining IP information for eth1...dhclient(4733) is already
> > running - exiting.
> > exiting.
> >  failed.
> >
> > How can I start eth1? Note that SELinux is set to Permissive.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
> Hi Dotan,
>
> It looks weird, but maybe you could try removing the eth1 device from
> system-config-network, reboot your pc, so it is recognized again, and
> see if it gets configured properly.
>
> I have done that before on Fedora in my T30 IBM.
>
> hope this helps you.

Thanks, Guillermo. It did not find the wireless adaptor after deleting
it and rebooting... Is there a "find new hardware" option somewhere?

Dotan Cohen

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