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I am a linux new-bie. I have installed fedora 9 on my dell XPS laptop. I am able to connect to internet through ethernet. But i cannot connect through wireless. I thought reason may be that its missing drivers for the wireless card but on research i found that my kernel version should already have the required drivers.
FYI,
command 'uname -a' returns,
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 17 14:20:33 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
and command 'lspci' returns my wireless card as:
Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
'/sbin/ifup wlan0' returns
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
Determining IP information for wlan0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
Can someone tell me where should i start to solve this problem. Thanks a lot,
Did you resolve this? I say this because I notice your CLI ifconfig stated "resources unavailable temporarily" It may be when you rebooted later it will have been resolved.
I'm a newbie too and some of your comments confused me. To me eth0 is an Ethernet cable connection not wifi.
Try iwconfig without any parameters. Mine shows no wireless connections for (lo) (eth0) and (wlan) but a wireless connection for (ath0) which is my
wireless driver of my NIC also.
I have an atheros 242x on my laptop running linux suse 11.0.
Linux recognise my wireless card, but does not have its driver. I learnt that i have to use madwifi,but no to avail.
Under the network settings in YAST...
AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (Not connected)
BusID : 0000:03:00.0
Unable to configure the network card because the kernel device (eth0, wlan0) is not present. This is mostly caused by missing firmware (for wlan devices). See dmesg output for details.
I typed onto the command prompt, 'uname -a' and it gave me:
Linux linux-ckay 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae #1 SMP 2008-06-07 01:55:22 +0200 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
I also typed 'dmesg' on the cmd prompt and displays:
SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=56
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:fb:00:16:d4:94:3d:c2:08:00 SRC=10.2.2.8 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=76 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=27 PROTO=UDP ...blah blah blah....
I need serious help pls someone anyone....HELP!!!!!!!!!
I'm new to linuxish.
thank you grabpro for your comments, i spend almost an afternoon looking for a solution and i found out ... misteriosly... du..du.. du .. duuuhhhh...
my wireless card it wasnt connected, the thing is that i dont know why, but the card was there just my linux wasnt using for a connection so ... i create a new connection using my card, and... it wont worked, so i spend the afternoon checking all the settings and everything and ... nothing happend... suddenly the next morning i turn on the lap and it was automatically connected.
So i guess, you were right... i just need to reboot ... lol
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