On Fri, November 23, 2007 12:57 pm, DJA wrote:
>
> Did you ever check the TX settings with "iwlist <interface> txpower?
> Maybe the current driver or its settings have decreased that value.
>
below
> What laptop and chipset is it again?
>
below
> Any indication from dmesg or the logs that the card was recognized at F8
> boot up?
Below, and this looks promising -- maybe the firmware thing? (Marked w/
LOOKEE)
> Does the computer have a wireless on/off (enable/disable)
> switch or key? It's possible the radio is turned off.
>
It has such a switch w/ indicator light. I turn it on before booting.
Whether the light is lying is difficult to say, but we should recall that
this worked in a limited fashion under Vista, indication _some_ power got
to the card.
> Remember that if the card requires firmware, Fedora does not include
> that as it's proprietary, so you'll have to fetch it from a third party
> site, the mfr website, or any CD's you have for that particular laptop
> or card. For instance, this is required for BCM43xxx and IPW2200
> chipsets. Or you need Ndiswrapper installed and configured for cards
> that don't have a Linux-native driver.
>
>
This is interesting.
When Jim S. and I were noodling with this at the installfest, we
determined that the firmware was a series of modules named "rtNNNN.bin"
that lived in /lib/firmware. I was fully prepared to track them down and
install them. However, after the vanilla installation of F8, the directory
and the .bins were already there.
rt2561.bin
rt2561s.bin
rt2661.bin
rt73.bin
BELOW ******************
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iwlist wlan0 txpower
wlan0 unknown transmit-power information.
Current Tx-Power=27 dBm (501 mW)
#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] ~]# dmesg|grep wlan
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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LOOKEE! "link not ready"
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