redhat 9 gigafast wireless dongle connection problems
 

Hi,

I have installed redhat 9. I was able to install the Gigafast wireless dongle.

When i type iwconfig I get the following lines

wlan0 IEEE 802.11-b ESSID:"mywnet" Nickname:"mywnet"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.447GHz Access Point: 00:04:44:7D:44:0A
Tx-Power:2500 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr=2500 B Fragment thr=2500 B
Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Security mode:open
Link Quality:219/92 Signal level:-83 dBm Noise level:-40 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr <I have the mad address here>
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2228 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2732 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1238893 (1.1 Mb) TX bytes:836481 (816.8 Kb)
Interrupt:11

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:150742 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:150742 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:27597472 (26.3 Mb) TX bytes:27597472 (26.3 Mb)

where xxx.....................-xx is the 128bit hex key for WEP

When I run ifconfig however, wlan0 is not visitble

I can connect to internet using eth0, but if I remove eth0, and want to connect o to internet wireless connection is not working

i tried restarting network, i got the following output

Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Setting network parameters: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ]


I don't see my wlan0 wirless card there, please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!