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!