� wrote:
I do have HAL:
Name : hal
Arch : i386
Version: 0.5.8.1
Release: 6.fc6
I have NetworkManager:
Installed Packages
Name : NetworkManager
Arch : i386
Epoch : 1
Version: 0.6.4
Release: 5.fc6
Okay, that is a better version of NM.
So, assuming the drivers for your Wifi chipset are installed and working,
1) Make sure NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher are running as
services. You can check this in system-config-services or various CLI
ways.
2a) If you are using KDE (as I do) run KNetworkmanager. This is a
panel applet that presents a nice frontend for Wifi management.
You may have to install this explicitly as I don't know if is
included in F8.
2b) If you are using Gnome, I think the corresponding applet is called
nm-applet.
That's pretty much all that is required anymore in Fedora, but again,
ONLY if your Wifi chipset is installed and working properly.
Some Wifi chipsets (e.g. Intel IPW2200, BCM43xx, etc.) require binary
drivers which are not included in Fedora. You can get such drivers
directly from the chipset maker's website, or through the Linux driver
maintainer's website. If your chipset is not natively supported in
Linux, you can usually run it with Ndiswrapper, which is a wrapper for
the Windows-native driver.
To see if your system sees the Wifi card, aside from the usual kernel
logs and utilities, run iwconfig and ifconfig. Those will both show if
the interface exists and has been set up automatically by the kernel and
its driver modules
Now, this machine is an Opteron 64 bits, I see this packages are i386 arch,
should I point my yum repository to somewhere else and update my packages?
I've noticed that the 64-bit versions if Fedora often include both i386
and 64-bit versions some apps. Often the 32-bit version is required for
the 64-bit one to run. I don't think there is any harm in that. In the
instant case, there is likely only one version of that package.
If you upgraded to a 64-bit version distro from a previously existing
32-bit install, you probably have some 32-bit stuff still hanging
around. Again, probably not a problem.
The machine did an automatic update and now when I do the 'lspci' commandI
do get to see 'wlan0'. I am getting closer.
:-)
I don't think you would have that interface available if the chipset was
not working.
By the way, DO NOT use system-config-network to configure your Wifi
connection in Fedora. It just confuses the system. You can use it to
manage your Ethernet connections, but I recommend staying away from it
if using NetworkManager. Eventually, system-config-network will be
replaced by the NetworkManager utilities or something similar.
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~DJA.
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