Lan Barnes wrote:
"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.
You are thinking backwards. The dependency chain of the modules is:
orinoco-pci -> orinoco -> hermes
In other words, you can load hermes by itself, orinoco depends on
hermes, and orinoco-pci depends on orinoco. The output of lsmod should
look like this:
$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
orinoco_pci 8013 0
orinoco 40405 1 orinoco_pci
hermes 7745 2 orinoco_pci,orinoco
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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.
Is your default route set properly?
What is the output of route -n?
Because you have two network interfaces you might be trying to go out
the wrong interface unless they are set up for different networks or the
built-in wired interface is disabled by either blacklisting or not
bringing it up.
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.
What does iwlist tell you?
# iwlist wifi0 scan
It should show you your access point and tell you that the connection is
encrypted. If iwlist doesn't show you anything then either the card
really isn't activated or there is a problem with your access point.
I'm willing to let you drag the box over to my house for demoli
^H^H^H^H^H setup and testing.
Gus
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