Wireless Card Problem Connecting On Boot FC3
Hello,
I have been receiving a lot of trouble with my Netgear WG311 Wireless Card. I recently have configured it using the madwifi drivers and have successfully connected to the internet. When I reboot my computer, I get an error message as follows: "Device ath0 had a different MAC address than expected: Failed" Then soon after that error, after the login screen I get: "Could not look up Internet address for localuser. This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding localuser to the file /etc/hosts." After I finally log on, I click on my browser to check if it will work anyhow. As I figured, no success. I go into Applications/System Tools/Network Device Control from the drop down menu. I click on activate and the error about the Different Mac Address appears. I click on configure and activate in the configuration menu and it determines the IP address. I use my browser and i can now connect to the Internet. How would I get this to recognize the Mac Address so it will connect on boot? The router I'm using is a motorola 1000. Here is some information I have gathered that could be of some use. sbin/ifconfig---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:94:82:CC inet addr:192.168.0.10 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fe94:82cc/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:189 errors:665 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:665 TX packets:205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 RX bytes:171400 (167.3 KiB) TX bytes:32775 (32.0 KiB) Interrupt:217 Memory:62c80000-62c90000 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:1355 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1355 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1389898 (1.3 MiB) TX bytes:1389898 (1.3 MiB) end------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cat < /etc/sysconfig/.....-ath0------------------------------------------------------------- # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. IPV6INIT=yes ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=yes PEERDNS=yes GATEWAY= TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=ath0 HWADDR=00:09:5b:94:82:cc BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 DHCP_HOSTNAME=charlie IPADDR=192.168.0.2 DOMAIN=192.168.0.1 ESSID=Motorola CHANNEL=1 MODE=Managed RATE=Auto end------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /etc/resolv.conf---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script nameserver 192.168.0.1 end------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any help would be greatly appriciated, and if info could be given on where to find this solution I would be very happy! Thanks, charlie |
"Could not look up Internet address for localuser. This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding localuser to the file /etc/hosts."
to solve this just do as it says, add the line 127.0.0.1 localuser to your /etc/hosts file. As for the different mac address error, I think you can solve this by adding alias information to the following lines to your /etc/modprobe.conf file alias ath0 ath_pci however for a full round-up make sure you read http://madwifiwiki.thewebhost.de/wiki/1 Cheers Chris |
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