Lan Barnes wrote:
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.
Maybe you should pull the wireless card, do a reinstall, get everything
set up and then put the card in afterwards. Then you won't have to deal
with the automatic setup stuff and can add in everything manually.
I've seen that the hostap_pci is used when you want the card to act as
an access point (same as your wireless router), but the module seems to
be relic of the old wlan-ng stuff from the 2.2-2.4 kernel days.
Gus
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