Hi all,
I am fairly new to Linux, so bear with me. I have installed Fedora Core 4 on my Sager 5680 laptop, which has a wired Realtek gigabit card and a Prism based wireless card. I am having a real hard time getting the wireless to work. I have ran through several things in an attempt to get this going. I have installed ndiswrapper, and it all shows up when I do the standard checks:
Code:
#lspci | grep 03:04
03:04.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)
# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
2802w driver present, hardware present
# dmesg | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper: driver 2802w (SMC,04/29/2004, 3.0.11.1) loaded
ndiswrapper: using irq 201
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:2b:79:fd using driver 2802w, 1260:3890.5.conf
# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:2B:79:FD
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:258 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:32166 (31.4 KiB) TX bytes:784 (784.0 b)
Interrupt:201 Memory:e8204000-e8206000
# iwlist wlan0 scan
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0E:D7:49:D2:40
ESSID:"phoenix"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.457 GHz (Channel 10)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-81 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Bit Rate:6 Mb/s
Bit Rate:9 Mb/s
Bit Rate:12 Mb/s
Bit Rate:18 Mb/s
Bit Rate:24 Mb/s
Bit Rate:36 Mb/s
Bit Rate:48 Mb/s
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=2
Cell 02 - Address: 00:0E:D7:48:3E:40
ESSID:"phoenix"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.442 GHz (Channel 7)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-57 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Bit Rate:6 Mb/s
Bit Rate:9 Mb/s
Bit Rate:12 Mb/s
Bit Rate:18 Mb/s
Bit Rate:24 Mb/s
Bit Rate:36 Mb/s
Bit Rate:48 Mb/s
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=2
Cell 03 - Address: 00:04:75:64:14:4C
ESSID:"3Com"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-67 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=1000
Extra:atim=2
# iwconfig wlan0
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"phoenix" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: 00:0E:D7:48:3E:40
Bit Rate=48 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-50 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
But, and here is the pisser, I can't seem to get an IP address using dhclient:
Code:
# dhclient wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:2b:79:fd
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:2b:79:fd
Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use
Please make sure there is no other dhcp server
running and that there's no entry for dhcp or
bootp in /etc/inetd.conf. Also make sure you
are not running HP JetAdmin software, which
includes a bootp server.
I need some help here, as I don't know enough about Linux to diagnose what I am jacking up here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
) it all came up like a champ.
