I had my smc wireless card working beutifully on 2.4.25 on redhat 8 it as soon as i pluged it in it worked and connected up every time with out fail..

I have compiled and installed 2.6.5 now and I have eventually got the card working. BUT every time I boot up

1. I have to change the file /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug to read /sbin/hotplug instead of /bin/true.. the file reverts to /bin/true on every boot????

2. I have to recompile the prism54 drivers with the line make KDIR=/usr/src/linux clean modules
then make KDIR=usr/src/linux install

3. I have to goto "RedhatStart" ( for want of a better discription for the wee redhat button that is start on windows) -> System Settings -> Network then make eth1 (wifi card) active. If i run 'iwlist scanning' , or 'ifconfig' ,'iwconfig' they all hang and i cant kill -9 them. Then and only then does my card seem to spring to life. And I can browse the internet and come to this forum to type this yoke out. If I goto shutdown now the shutdown fails to stop xinet and the machine hangs and doesnot shut down

3alt. if instead of step 3 i type 'ifconfig eth1 up' the card starts and I get my link light and 'iwlist scanning' return as it should with the names of the acces points and stuff, but me browsers does not connect to the internet . The machine shutsdown k this way.

I have sysfs mounted and all that but i am a bit of a biginner and not great at the inner workings of all this stuff.


SomeBody put me out of my misery please..







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Ahem.. well, anyway, now that we're through with that...
How about, switching to a better distro than redhat 8 and you shouldn't have a problem. I'm not sure why you'd still be using it anyway since its gotta be rather out of date, unless your trying to costantly keep up with the updates and doing them manually.. Ick.

Get something better running on that thing! Suse! Gentoo! Mandrake! Anything!

Caeda,

It could be a production machine...we don't know. Not everyone is free to upgrade willy-nilly. I agree there are some great distros out there ("better" is a relative term...for me, yes, Gentoo is better...but my situation isn't his).

headtheball,

I wish I had more help, but for point #1, I'd check your boot-scripts, maybe there's something that restores that to its original state...instead of rewriting every boot (if you can't find what puts it back) you can create a symlink to /sbin/hotplug...

My mistake its redhat 9 im running...

Where are these boot scripts you talk of.. Me other problem is me cdrom drive does not mount any more. It says that its not a vaild block device.


My god its all very dificult balancing the earth on one hand and yourself on the other.