Wireless Card (MN-520) still not working.
 

I am a noob to Linux and am having some serious trouble trying to get my laptop to work with the wireless card/router. I have a Microsoft MN-520 with the MN-500 basestation. I am running Linux Fedora Core 1 (I cannot get any of the updates to work when directly connected to the router, but thats different story all together.) I have followed these instructions from a previous post to get the pcmcia card to work... but with a few glitches.

HERE IS WHERE I'M STUCK

1) I can edit the "/etc/pcmcia/config" without problem and get the OS to recognize the wireless card.

2) This "/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia restart" command does not work. rc.pcmcia does not exist.

3) "/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf" does not exist either so I cannot edit that.

4) Same with "/etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf"

5) I tried configuring the wireless card via the GUI but still no luck. When I try to activate the card it gives me some error message about how it cannot receive DHCP, and there is some DHclient script misssing.

I have only installed Fedora C1 and have not downloaded the updates. Its a clean install and thats all. Any information on how to get this to work would be GREATLY appriciated. I cannot express how badly I do not want to revert back to windows. PLEASE HELP!

Moved: This thread is more suitable in Wireless Networking and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

Did you solve this yet? It's been a few days since the post.

The instructions you listed would work fine for Slackware. Fedora and similar distros use a little different structure.

To set up the wireless parameters, edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx with x being the number of your interface - 0, 1, 2, etc. Or, take the GUI route and run the Fedora network configuration tool. When you save the changes, it writes them to ifcfg-eth0.

To restart a service like card services (PCMCIA) or networking, type:
/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
/etc/init.d/network restart

To run the script for the interface, bring it up and apply the network settings, click on the "activate" button in the network GUI or via command:
ifup eth0

Hope that gets things going for you.

I took advice from another message board that I posted the same problem on. They told me to install Fedora Core 2 and it should recognize the card automatically. So I installed FC2 and during the install it recognized the card as another ethernet adapter (not wireless). The card appeared to be functioning during the install, the power light was solid and the wireless light was flashing. After the install I reboot the computer and nothing. No beeps on startup and no lights on the card. I try to install the card manually, and FC doesn't even recognize that its there. The entry for that exact same card is in the /etc/pcmcia/conf file. Now I'm completely lost. At least with FC1 I was able to enter the IP address in web brower and get to the Router config screen (no internet though). Any thoughts/suggestions would be appriciated.

-um

Get Slackware. The instructions for it are posted here on LQ and they work. I used them.

Tryr loading the socket module manually as described in this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=204313
Then try the instructions I listed above. They should hold true for FC2. I'm still learning about the 2.6 kernel stuff, though.