Up until today I had Slackware 10.2 on my toshiba laptop. Was good for learning, but I was spending to much time configuring it then i was using it. The straw that broke the camels back was all of a sudden I lost my wireless conection. I didnt look to much into but noticed it did not even show up in ifconfig or iwconfig.
I used FC3 a while back, and it ran without a hitch, and instantly recognized my wireless card.
So I decided to come back to it. I installed FC4, and it didnt seem to find my wireless card. I dual boot XP (im posting from xp) and I have no wifi issues at all.
I manually set up my card as eth1. Funny thing is when I choose wireless connection to add, it gives me a list of wired NIC cards to install. So then I just choose to set up a wired network connection, and oddly enough my Intel IPW2100 card was in the options. So I set it up, and when I try to activate it, it says the hardware cannot be found.
Watching the boot process now, when it tries to bring up eth1 it also tells me the hardware is not available, and skips it.
lspci does have it listed.
Here is some of my outputs...
Code:
[root@localhost ~]# lspci -n
00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:3340 (rev 21)
00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:3341 (rev 21)
00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:24c2 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:24c4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 Class 0c03: 8086:24cd (rev 03)
00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:2448 (rev 83)
00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:24cc (rev 03)
00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:24ca (rev 03)
00:1f.3 Class 0c05: 8086:24c3 (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Class 0401: 8086:24c5 (rev 03)
01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0324 (rev a1)
02:07.0 Class 0c00: 104c:8023
02:08.0 Class 0200: 8086:103d (rev 83)
02:0a.0 Class 0280: 8086:1043 (rev 04)
02:0b.0 Class 0607: 1179:0617 (rev 33)
02:0d.0 Class 0880: 1179:0805 (rev 05)
I've bolded my card
Code:
[root@localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev
21)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 2
1)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) U
SB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) U
SB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Co ntroller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (re v 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 0 3)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Cont roller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH 4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1)
02:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Cont roller (PHY/Link)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 83)
02:0a.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
02:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bri dge with ZV Support (rev 33)
02:0d.0 System peripheral: Toshiba America Info Systems SD TypA Controller (rev 05)
Code:
ifconfig
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:1915 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1915 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2029118 (1.9 MiB) TX bytes:2029118 (1.9 MiB)
Code:
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
