Hi All
I have just installed FC 8 on a hp 530 laptop, generally the installation has been easy and works, however I cannot get the onboard wirless networking to work.
So far I have installed the ipw3945 driver and rebooted the machine.
In the Network configuration hardware tab I now have 2 entries:
Broadcom Corporation Ethernet eth0 ok
Intel Corporation 8256 Ethernet eth1 ok

In the devices section I have:

Profile Status Device Nickname Type
tick Active eth0 eth0 Ethernet
tick Inactive eth1 eth1 Ethernet

eth0 is the wired network and works fine

If I try to activate eth1 I get an error message saying it cannot activate network device eth1 (tg3 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization)

Anyone have an idea as to where I am going wrong? and how to solve it.

Many Thanks
Jean Pierre

Hi JeanPierre

You may want to try and type from a terminal console iwconfig, the output should indicate the wireless system device installed on your system, than use the system Network configuration management utility to configure the device to driver...

OR


You may want to try this module to load WINXP drivers for your wireless device.

http://atrpms.net/dist/f8/ndiswrapper/

I hope this is of help

Jnike

Hi jNike

I tried the first option with iwconfig, and got the following output:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption keyff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

virbr0 no wireless extensions.

Which indicates to me that the device to be used is wlan0, but that it is neither setup or linked to eth1 - the network config utility does not give me any option for wlan.
Does fedora have any wireless setup utilities to solve this one?
Any direction now would be helpful.

Thanks
Jean Pierre

Hi JeanPierre,

I would suggest you use the link I sent earlier, install ndiswrapper module, once this has been completed,

Try copying the the drivers from the cdrom or dvd which was provided with hardware for the wireless adapter, or try and obtain the winxp drivers for the wireless adapter & place them in your /home/username/download directory.

Than issue the following command

$ ndiswrapper -i /home/username/download/"winxp driver" *.inf

You should than have the driver installed.

To configure the wlan0 interface, see man iwconfig, example.....

$ iwconfig wlan0 essid "router name"
$ iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
$ iwconfig wlan0 ap "name"
$ iwconfig wlan0 key sassword phrase

Check settings by running iwconfig again...

$ iwconfig

I hope this helps

jnike

Hi Thanks for the help - I tried and it said that it installed the driver (mentioned that it had to force something) but its still not working, even the little light on the on/off switch is not working so I think there may be some lower level incompatibilty issues here - I tied with a 3com pcmia card that I had working on Slackware before, when it is plugged in it sees the intel/broadcom device in the networks section but not the 3com one ..... I think I'll give the pcmcia one a shot next.

Thanks again
JP

hello there

I have same laptop

and I have the same problem

I cant not see wifi network

when I open the terminal and log as root

and type iwconfig

the result is

[root@localhost admin]# iwconfig
bash: iwconfig: command not found
[root@localhost admin]#


anybody can help me?!