hello all. i have a toshiba satellite pro model p105-s921. i used fedora linux and had no issues with the wireless access. i recently purchased Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Workstation. it finds the card but will not activate. i have tried all things i found by searching. i can't remember the first error message but after some changes to the router setup it started giving me a SCIOCSIFFLAGS folder does not exist. i am somewhat new to linux but i cannot understand why fedora found it instantly and red hat can't connect. i appreciate any help.

wlan0: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945 ABG [Golan} Network Connection

the 3945 has only (very) recently been well supported in Linux. Hence recent Fedora will have the drivers, but I would be surprised if RHEL did.
Try googling for 3945 on Centos - same approach should work.

thank you for the guidance. i did find the driver for the network card on the red hat supplementary disk. i was assuming that there was some issue with the router due to the fact that the network card was showing up correctly. i have it working now but i had to take off the wap key & internal firewall of the router just so it would work. i tried many times to get everything talking but it was a no go. small price to pay i guess to get it going. thanks again for the help.

That sounds like an old driver - it used to have real issues talking WAP (I have 3945 on this laptop).
RHEL, being enterprise, is always fairly well behind on support for things like this. Later kernel will enable this support - keep an eye on it.

thanks i will. i appreciate the help on this.