[Novices] Fedora core 5 wireless setup

[Nikolas Reist]

Type this in a console:

user at localhost$:  /sbin/ifconfig

my output looks like this:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:CE:C5:20:FF
          inet addr:192.168.1.103  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::213:ceff:fec5:20ff/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:18822 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16198 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:6914762 (6.5 MiB)  TX bytes:2835316 (2.7 MiB)
          Interrupt:201 Base address:0xa000 Memory:dfcfd000-dfcfdfff

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1456 (1.4 KiB)  TX bytes:1456 (1.4 KiB)

eth1 is my wireless, yours might be wlan0.  If it includes the lines:

inet addr:192.168.1.x=number  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

your card is loaded and you are able to get an ip address from your wireless access point.  If it only has:

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback ... etc

your card is not properly configured.  You will want to make sure that you don't have more than one ssid with the same name.  Names like "Default" or "Linksys" are very common and should not be used or you may not get a stable connection to your access point.  I don't recommend Kwifimanager because it does not really allow for case by case management of connection to hotspots.  It will try to load auto-negotiation to networks that are not incrypted first unless you specify it to look for encrypted networks first with a configuration you provided.  At least that has been my experience with SuSE 10 and Kubuntu.  I can't speak on Fedora's behalf.  Let me know what the output of /sbin/lspci is and we'll go from there.

Nik

----- Original Message ----
From: cothien at kingdomsend.com
To: A list for Linux beginners to ask questions <novices at kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 5:31:33 PM
Subject: RE: [Novices] Fedora core 5 wireless setup

i varified that i am connecting to the right one. also showing 100 on
the kwifimanager for signal





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