Hello,

I just installed Fedora 9 and i can't seem to activate my wireless.

You can't click on the button.

when i installed the device, it auto detected
PRO/Wireless 2200 ....

it's on eth1 (as it used to be)

running iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 radio off ESSIDff/any Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=off Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
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

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.


and everywhere i look in the GUI part of networking, the card and the connection is there, i just can't activate it.

anyone out there have any ideas?

the wireless always craps out when i reinstall or upgrade my linux.

thanks for your help

//s

You shouldn't need to activate it since NetworkManager looks after it. Ensure you have "Controlled by Network Manager" checked in the profile for the device, save and exit. Then:

The NM applet should show up and you should be able to connect.

Thanks for your tips.

this is what happened:


[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start
Setting network parameters... [ OK ]
Starting NetworkManager daemon: [ OK ]
[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E47:BC:8A
inet addr:192.168.100.104 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e4ff:fed7:bc8a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1024714 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1064089 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:2 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:721977485 (688.5 MiB) TX bytes:890940761 (849.6 MiB)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0xc400

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:16522 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16522 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:826260 (806.8 KiB) TX bytes:826260 (806.8 KiB)
[root@localhost ~]#

but again, i can't seem to activate the wireless in the icon by the clock.
is it possible that i haven't correctly set up the wireless connection? the passwords,SSID and all that i mean..

//s

ok..

so now the wireless card i active...? don't know how that happened...

but i can't seem to get a list of the wireless networks...


anyone have any ideas?

//S