On Sat, January 6, 2007 9:19 pm, Lan Barnes wrote: > > 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. >
The Myth machine running the prism card is loading a module names orinoco. today Also (this is fun), something has broken my laptop's wireless connection. It worked before all this tinkering. I've rebooted the rooter, cycled power, checked the settings on both sides, but only hard wire is working. I'm pretty disgusted. I'm going to bed. Maybe in the morning someone will have posted buckets of insight. Maybe not. Maybe tomorrow todayI should do something material with my hands. </me stumps off to bed grumpy> -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
