On Sat, January 6, 2007 6:52 pm, Lan Barnes wrote: > MythDora (RH FC 3 based) 3.2 is installed. Next is wifi connectivity > because I simply can't cable that far in this old house. > > The card in question is a Prism card. Picked up on boot according to both > dmesg and /var/log/messages. They call it wifi0. No wifi0 appears in /dev. > > I used the RH GUI tools to set up the ifup scripts, checking all the > parameters against working machines. The channel, modes, and WEP mojo all > match. I chose not to bind to a HW Addr, not knowing if the probe had > gotten the card of eth0 on the MB. Don't knwo how to probe a card for its > HW Addr (something in /proc?). > > I suspect that the right module needs to be found and loaded. > > Could you most kindly tell me what diagnostics to run so I can sound more > intelligent asking for help? > > Oh, ping says network unreachable. No DHCP, all static. >
OK, iwconfig shows that the card is found and the config is taken, but signal level is 0. The google sirtes say that the module should be PCI : prism2_pci.o I'm presently running run-parts to build a locate db. Wish I knew more about modules. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
