"There is no such thing as a clean hardware deal."
= Frank Bush
OK, last report on the myth box of the night.
It started throwing kernel panics. I downloaded and burned a bootable CD
with memtest86 (last time I did that it was a floppy). The box started
throwing buckets of errors.
I pulled the mem sticks. One had what looked like a tent caterpillar nest
on the pins. I wiped it clean, replaced it, and tried the test again.
Perfection. No panics since.
I mafe the wifi not on-boot. iwconfig showed both wlan0 and wifi0. Rather
than struggle with eth* names, I configured to what it already had.
I entered the aliases in /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf~.
Because lsmod showed orinoco_pci pointing to orinoco and a module named
hermes pointing to both of them, I tried aliasing to both orinoco_pci and
hermes in separate experiments.
I then rebooted, and as root ran ifconfig (lo only) and iwconfig (wifi0
ans wlan0, both uninitiated and inactive).
So then I do an ifup wifi0, rn the ifconfig and iwconfig again. it takes
about 4 seconds, returns w/o error. ifconfig shows wifi0 now with the
right IP and HW Addr, no errors. iwconfig shows wlan0 with a signal level
at -82 dBm, noise at -100, righ addresses, etc. it shows wifi0 the same
but no link quality, noise level, that stuff.
so I try the whole thing again with wlan0. No joy.
My pings return Destination Host Unreachable.
My /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default has hosts, networks (0
bytes), resolv.conf, ifcfg-wifi0, and keys-wifi0. They all look healthy.
That's all I can think to tell you.
Thanls for the support, and sleep well.
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Lan Barnes
SCM Analyst Linux Guy
Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer
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