Lan Barnes wrote:
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
Still want to know laptop brand. This may also be an issue with whatever
mechanism enables the chip, e.g. ACPI or tools specific to your brand an
model.
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.
Okay, but likely that's a problem area in Linux. If the radio is enabled
by default at boot up, good. Otherwise, it's questionable whether the
switch even functions in Linux. Depends on whether the switch has a
simple hardware connection, or routes through soft-/firm-ware somehow.
Obviously, if it worked pre-F8, then it *should* work in F8, although
the mechanism may have changed.
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
Was this an upgrade or fresh install? This implication of what you say
above is that it is a fresh install.
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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LOOKEE! "link not ready"
Which seems to indicate it actually saw the card, although I rather see
proof in dmesg that it saw the *card* (hardware) as opposed to an
interface (logical).
Here are more links that may be of use:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part.php?brandname=Belkin
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rt2400/
http://linux.saini.co.in/2007/06/06/wireless-lan-in-f-7-ralink-rt2500-level-one-wnc-0301/
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BTW: I'm throwing every caliber of ammunition to you I can think of.
Whether you have the right weapon to use or not, I'm not really paying
attention to that - I'm not really reading it in depth. This is how I
usually research such problems: search out info by the barrel full, then
dump it on the floor and sort it out afterwards.
Getting wireless to work on my laptop was a royal PITA. Once I found the
necessary info, it fell into the category of "Well, of course! But why
didn't someone just tell me that in the first damn place?!".
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Best Regards,
~DJA.
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