After I get the ipw2200 up...

Justin Conover justin.conover at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 17:27:51 UTC 2006


On 1/17/06, Alexander Sukhodolsky <umdsasha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I wish I could tell you it worked, but even though I followed what you
> said and created wireless.sh and so on, still nothing--it runs and shows
> up in iwconfig as connected to that, but still can't ping.  Also, just for
> info, Network Configuration gets stuck on trying to get IP and then says
> it's unable to connect--any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex



Does ifconfig eth1 get an ip?  Does eth0 still have an ip too?  If both of
those are true, you might disable eth0

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down

On 1/17/06, Justin Conover < justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/17/06, Justin Conover < justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 1/17/06, Alexander Sukhodolsky < umdsasha at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > /sbin/iwconfig
> > > lo        no wireless extensions.
> > >
> > > eth0      no wireless extensions.
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > For example I just have a little script in my users $HOME
> > >
> > > $ cat wireless.sh
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > > /bin/su -c "/sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid YOURACCESSPOINT key YOURKEY &&
> > > /sbin/dhclient eth1 && /sbin/ifconfig eth1"
> > >
> > > 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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