Getting wireless working on CENTOS 5.3 64 bit
 

Hi All,

Just installed Centos 5.3 64 bit on a new machine.

It found and recognized the network card just fine but activating it end in errors
Determining IP information for eth1...failed; no link present. Check cable?

This is a wirelss so a cable is obviously not the problem.

If I go into network setup gui I can set the wirelss settings and give my security key (wireless is WEP and open)

It is the asus wireless network card WL-138G but deep down I think it is broadcom BCM4318 AirForce one 54G.

Anyone know any trick to try?

Did you rename the card to eth1? On a default setup, the first wired interface is usually called eth0. Is it possible you have a wired and a wireless interface on your machine?

I did not rename the wireless card

there is an onboard LAN as well, which also does not seem to be working :-)

I don't want to use the wired lan because it is going to be a webserver tucked away somewhere under the stairs in the house

Jack

Type as root:and print the results here.

Try connecting up the wired interface to make sure your modem/router is setup OK and is giving out IP addresses.

Set the wireless to be unencrypted until you have a connection set up.

Ok I have now changed from CentOS53. 64 bit to Fedore core 11 32 bit and that at least recognizes the onboard LAN. I found threads that for the onboard lan to work I need at least kernel 2.6.21 and for whatever reason the CentOs was 6.2.18. Fedora is 6.2.29

ifconfig

[root@ben10 network-scripts]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:8C:81:7F:BC
inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::224:8cff:fe81:7fbc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:86 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:170 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:5
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:39594 (38.6 KiB) TX bytes:26375 (25.7 KiB)
Interrupt:26

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:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12297 (12.0 KiB) TX bytes:12297 (12.0 KiB)