Config wireless
Hello,
I am new to FC5. I just installed FC5 on Sony VAIO PCG-V505BX. I can not connect to the internet through wireless built in card. I have a dual boot, and my WinXP wireless works fine. But I want FC5 to work as well. This is what I get: [root@localhost ~]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"test" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain" Mode:Master Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:02:8A:A6:9B:E7 Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"test" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain" Mode:Master Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:02:8A:A6:9B:E7 Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:38 Invalid misc:19982 Missed beacon:0 eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. [root@localhost ~]# iwlist scan lo Interface doesn't support scanning. wifi0 No scan results wlan0 No scan results eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning. sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning. Can someone help? Thanks. AJ |
For one thing, you need a hostname for your computer. Don't use localhost.
How many wifi devices do you have? You have a wifi0 and wlan0 device. Did you load both a native driver and ndiswrapper? The iwlist scan command indicates a problem with your driver(s). You may need to delete one of the device configurations and rmmod the device driver and then restart the network. |
Actually, this is my secomd installation of FC5. The first time I installed it, even using localhost, wireless worked great. I needed a bigger hard drive... so I replaced it and re-installed FC5. The second time, it just doesn't work. I did not load any native drivers for the wireless card nor did I install ndwrapper? Should I?
Thanks for your help. AJ |
The first thing that you need to do is determine which controller chip your computer's wireless device uses:
lspci -v On my machine: Code:
[jschiwal@matrix ~]$ /sbin/lspci -v | sed -n '/Wireless/,/^$/p' Now enter /sbin/lspci -n Code:
[jschiwal@matrix ~]$ /sbin/lspci -n 02:00.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 03) Now use google or this sites HCL to determine if you need to use the ndiswrapper or if a native driver is available. If you need ndiswrapper, then go to the ndiswapper wike and look up your device. http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List Search for the driver name and the manufactures code ( the number like 14e4:4320 (rev 03) ). You will also need to install ndiswrapper and the ndiswrapper kernel module for your kernel. You might try this ftp site of fedora core 5 extras: ftp://rpm.livna.org/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/5/i386/ Install ndiswrapper and then load the windows ndis driver. Then follow the instructions from the README file or the "man ndiswrapper" man page to do it. ( Or enter ndiswrapper --help ). Then as root run "ndiswrapper -m" and then "modprobe ndiswrapper". Now check if the driver is working with: iwlist wlan0 scan. If it returns with a list of access points, the driver is working. The next steps are setting up wpa encryption and the network devices configuration. Note: If your computer is an AMD64 computer, make sure that you download the x86_64 version of ndiswrapper and the 64bit windows driver. I found the driver for my Broadcom device on my HP laptop at the linuxant web site. |
I found out that Red Hat 5 has a kernel driver for Broadcom bcm43xx drivers. Use the bcm43xx-fwcutter program to extract the firmware from a windows driver.
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...003-2.fc5.html This is for Broadcom bcm43xx drivers, so use the lspci -v command to determine your wireless devices controller. |
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