[Novices] Fedora core 5 wireless setup

Sat Aug 26 00:13:56 EDT 2006

heres all the info... pluse some heh

/sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host
bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP
bridge (rev 03)
00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems WinModem 56k (rev 01)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24
[CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev
01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev
01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2360
[MagicMedia 256ZX]

/wiconfig
eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"homegrown"
         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.452 GHz  Access Point:
00:04:5A:FD:90:39
         Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535
         Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key:off
         Power Management:off
         Link Quality=100/100  Signal level=-43 dBm  Noise level=-114
dBm
         Rx invalid nwid:21  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:27   Missed beacon:0

wifi0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"homegrown"
         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.452 GHz  Access Point:
00:04:5A:FD:90:39
         Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/65535
         Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key:off
         Power Management:off
         Link Quality=100/100  Signal level=-43 dBm  Noise level=-114
dBm
         Rx invalid nwid:21  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:27   Missed beacon:0

/sbin/ifconfig
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:2075 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:2075 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         RX bytes:3559813 (3.3 MiB)  TX bytes:3559813 (3.3 MiB)

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Novices] Fedora core 5 wireless setup
> From: Nikolas Reist <reisttech at yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, August 25, 2006 4:07 pm
> To: A list for Linux beginners to ask questions
> <novices at kalamazoolinux.org>
> 
> 
> 
> 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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