Fedora 6 and ipw3945 HELP!
Im running Fedora 6 (2.6.19-1.2911.fc6) KDE and i can not for the life of me get my wireless working.
I have a ipw3945 wireless. I think i installed ipw3945d and ieee80211 correctly from using freshrpms or ATrpms (cant remember). When i reboot my computer i see that ipw3945 is indeed running but i still can not configure my wireless in Control Center->Internet and Network->Wireless Network. Everything is grayed out and can not be configured. I added the following 3 lines to modprobe.conf: alias eth1 ipw3945 install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ; sleep 0.5 ; /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet remove ipw3945 /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945 I create a new file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 as follows: ONBOOT=no USERCTL=yes PEERDNS=no TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=eth1 #HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx BOOTPROTO=dhcp #ESSID=xxxxxxx #KEY='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx restricted' MODE=Managed RATE=Auto PEERNTP=no Question #1 I need to know how to find out the values for HWADDR, ESSID, KEY. Explain like you would to a kid please :) Question #2 What do i do after i have this configured. Question #3 Is there any real easy yum install for all of this? Question #4 Why is this so damn annoying! |
Just curious if you dis able SELinux and reset to enforcing (making SELinux relabel the system) does the Wireless card work then? I know there is a bug with SELinux's prelink function that will goof up alot of things. Also try installing yumex
Code:
yum -y install yumex |
Sorry kind of a newbie. Dont know how to disable SELinux.
Also when using yumex. What should i download for ipw3945 with Fedora 6 (2.6.19-1.2911.fc6) Thanks |
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As for the Wireless, What card are you trying to use? If I use the yumex search for ipw3945 it turns up nothing. If I google the card I get this url: http://atrpms.net/dist/fc6/ipw3945/ for the rpm file. You should be able to download the file then use rpm -Uvh <rpmfilename> to install it. You could google ipw3945 drivers for FC6 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 and go from there also. If I do it I get ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6-1.1.3-17.2.fc6.at.x86_64.rpm from the AT rpms page. |
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