On Tue, January 9, 2007 11:50 am, DJA wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> After spending a sleepless early morning on this, I have decided to do a >> reinstall with format and then poke around and see what's up. I want to >> start with a clean image. >> >> I think something in the MythDora install is inserting wlan0 and perhaps >> wifi0 as well. But I have to _know_. Whatever they install, I'm going >> with >> it. > > I suggest you get the Wireless Extensions conflict solved first, at > least to eliminate on variable. It looks like the maintainer has not > been paying attention to some important details. >
After a long lunch hour, I am prepared to exonerate the maintainer. I reinstalled. The problem was that the initial install had asked me for the configurations of wifi0 AND wlan0, and I had mindlessly filled them both out the same. This time I only filled out wifi0, and now ifconfig and iwconfig give much saner output. Also, FC5 had now chosen hostap_pci as the module, although /etc/modprobe.conf accepts orinoco_pci as well. orinoco_pci gives good signal strength ... ... but it still does network unreachable. Also, while booting, httpd says that there is no domain name. What are the kids doing these days to config a domain name? Used to be IIRC that this was entered in /etc/network. When I get home tonight I'll clear the WEP key at both ends and see if it connects in naked-as-a-jay-bird mode. Also, the card probe said to use Ad-hoc, and I have it set for auto. Feel free to comment on any of this. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
