On 7/23/07, Daryl Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# /sbin/iwconfig lo no wireless extensions.eth0 no wireless extensions. wmaster0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key: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
Looks like it's already working. You have a wireless interface (wlan0), just it's not associated with any wireless access point. So just try associate; something like "iwconfig wlan0 essid MyAccessPoint" (of course replacing MyAccessPoint with your SSID). For WEP, do "iwconfig wlan0 key open THEWEPHEXKEY" (whatever your key is). WPA is tougher to set up from scratch (you need wpa_supplicant), but FC7 should include tools which do all the associating and WPA for you. You probably should use those. :P Note, however, that just because you've successfully got a wireless interface, doesn't necessarily mean that associating etc will work (although it almost always does). However, the linux native bcm driver isn't very good, and a lot of people use the windows broadcom drivers under ndiswrapper instead. A way to test if you have basic wireless ability is to do a "iwlist wlan0 scan", which should hopefully show you the available wireless networks around you. If you see scan results, you're probably fine with the current drivers, but if manually associating (as described earlier) still isn't working, consider switching to the ndiswrapper drivers. David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
