After I get the ipw2200 up...

[Justin Conover]

On 1/17/06, Justin Conover <justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 1/17/06, Alexander Sukhodolsky <umdsasha at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > So I followed Justin Conover's ipw2200 how-to (very easy) and got my
> > wireless adapter to be recognized under the new fc5 test2 (i used the
> > newest firmware, though).  But now I'm having problems actually
> > connecting.  Basically, I went with what I know--kwifimanager and also
> > system-config-network.  The system-config-network shows my wireless card
> > and I try to set up a connection but nothing.  Now with kwifimanager, it
> > shows all the ssid's of networks around and I set up in the
> > configuration my network, and its corresponding password, and it does
> > connect, but firefox shows nothing.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Also--I tried networkmanager, including running the services
> > (serviceconf) and running it, but to no avail--/usr/bin doesnt seem to
> > have NetworkManagerInfo or something.  Any ideas?  Anyone else have
> > these problems in the new fc5 test2?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alex
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> If you see the device from /sbin/iwconfig
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> /sbin/iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
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> eth0      no wireless extensions.
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> eth1      unassociated  ESSID:off/any
>           Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           Bit Rate=0 kb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm
>           Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
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> For example I just have a little script in my users $HOME
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> $ cat wireless.sh
> #!/bin/bash
> /bin/su -c "/sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid YOURACCESSPOINT key YOURKEY &&
> /sbin/dhclient eth1 && /sbin/ifconfig eth1"
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> just chmod +x and sh wireless.sh as your user and should be up.
>


Just realized I should test out NetworkManager when I get home tonight :)
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