wireless ethernet problems

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue May 4 07:59:57 UTC 2004


On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 11:18:41PM -0400, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> 1) I have a Symbol wireless card, which uses the orinoco_cs driver.  But
> under every fedora release (core1, fc2t{1,2,3}), the definition for this
> card is missing in /etc/pcmcia/config.  I have to hand-patch this in
> every time, and it looks like this:
> 
> card "LA4111 Spectrum24 Wireless LAN PC Card"
>   version "Symbol Technologies"
>   bind "orinoco_cs"

Please add this to bugzilla. I don't myself know if our tables are
obsolete or everyone else added it but its clearly a bug somewhere.

> 3) in core2 test3, I can't for the life of me get my wireless card to
> DHCP correctly.  I've made the above-mentioned changes to the system. 
> pcmcia loads the drivers correctly, iwconfig shows the correct settings

Do other pcmcia cards work ?

> is that it WAS working!!  I installed fc2t3 2 nights ago, and the
> wireless card was working.  I believe I did a 'yum update' last night
> and today, it's borken.

Try booting the old kernel v new kernel. If it makes a difference
try with acpi=off. 





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