Fedora wireless issues

Crooksey · 12-17-2006, 02:55 PM

Just insatlled Fc6 on my borthers computer, all ok.

Open up a term "/sbin/iwconfig", gives me:

Code:

eth1      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:"crooks"  Nickname:"fedora.graffham"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Access Point: Invalid   
          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key: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:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I can for the life of me figure how to set it up, tried GUI windows, failed, tried CLI you can see i set the essid, i removed the key intill i got it working.

So my question, based on the evidence given, how do i get online?

I hooked it up in my room atm to use the ethernet connection.

deroB · 12-18-2006, 08:20 AM

Maybe you need to assign a network address?

try (as root)

Code:

dhcpcd eth1
ping http://www.google.com (to see if it works)

This should work if your network uses DHCP to assign network addresses....
Also, I'm not sure if FC6 comes with dhcpcd installed, you may need to install this first

good luck

PTrenholme · 12-18-2006, 08:56 AM

On Fedora, I've found it much easier just to install the NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispacher packages and use the knetworkmanager applet (in KDE or the GNOME applet [forgot its name] for GNOME) to get networking working.

goldym · 12-18-2006, 11:01 AM

can anybody know how to setup wirless LAN in fedora 4

deroB · 12-18-2006, 11:13 AM

Welcome to LQ goldym

You should start your own tread so you can get better help.

When you start your own tread, can you also post more info on your setup, so it's easier to help you.

Crooksey · 12-20-2006, 05:02 AM

Well, i found an old wifi card, thats supported by the madwifi module, got that working all good.

FC6 dosent come with dhcpcd, and i could not figure out how to install it.

PTrenholme · 12-22-2006, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crooksey

Well, i found an old wifi card, thats supported by the madwifi module, got that working all good.

FC6 dosent come with dhcpcd, and i could not figure out how to install it.

Code:

$ rpm -q --whatprovides dhcdbd
dhcdbd-2.1-1.fc6

So just use yum install dhcdbd and dhclient too, I expect. In fact, I think yum install dhclient will automatically install dhcdbd as a dependency.