First, thank you Jim, Gus, and Carl (and Robert for moral support) for the
help yesterday on this. I'm still stuck, but I feel smarter.
Here's where I am. I reinstalled the machine w/ Fedora 8. The wireless
still doesn't work. Jim and I established at the installfest to our own
satisfaction that the machine's card is OK. We concluded that there was a
probable version incompatability between the kernel and the card module as
it was installed on Saturday.
I went to F8 following Gus's advice that it has much better wireless
support. I now believe he's right. I suspect I'm stuck right now in a
configuration ignorance. Presumably, F8 is all compatable already.
The machine is a "Great Quality NX-L515." That they have to call
themselves "Great Quality" should concern us all.
F8 is installed. /lib/firmware has all the correct rt*.bin files, so that
much looks healthy.
I am attaching a long text file with the results of every command I could
think of that might help the knowledgable. I stand ready to run other
commands that you send to me. With any kind of luck, we can lick this
thing over the list. However, if it takes it, I can bag it up and travel
to someone's home for hands-on troubleshooting. Let's consider that a last
resort.
<grin> I'm over here asking for a digital barn raising. How did people
live before mailing lists? (I can answer that -- in isolation.)
--
Lan Barnes
SCM Analyst Linux Guy
Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lbarnes]# service network restart
Shutting down interface wlan0: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface wlan0: Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
[ OK ]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lbarnes]# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:DB:03:BD:61
inet addr:192.168.100.77 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:DB:03:BD:61
inet addr:192.168.100.77 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-19-DB-03-BD-61-D8-F8-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lbarnes]# iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 No scan results
sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
# from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
class: NETWORK
bus: PCI
detached: 0
device: wlan0
driver: rt61pci
desc: "RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g"
network.hwaddr: 00:19:db:03:bd:61
vendorId: 1814
deviceId: 0302
subVendorId: 1462
subDeviceId: b833
pciType: 1
pcidom: 0
pcibus: 5
pcidev: 3
pcifn: 0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# less modprobe.conf
alias eth0 8139too
alias scsi_hostadapter libata
alias scsi_hostadapter1 pata_atiixp
alias scsi_hostadapter2 sata_sil
alias wlan0 rt61pci
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lsmod|grep rt6
rt61pci 25153 0
rt2x00pci 10945 1 rt61pci
rt2x00lib 19009 2 rt61pci,rt2x00pci
mac80211 131409 4 rc80211_simple,rt61pci,rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
eeprom_93cx6 6081 1 rt61pci
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ping 192.168.100.1
PING 192.168.100.1 (192.168.100.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
>From 192.168.100.77 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 192.168.100.77 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 192.168.100.77 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 192.168.100.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3999ms
, pipe 3
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