[Novices] wireless problem fedora 4

[Eric Beversluis]

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 09:15 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I can't get my wireless to work.
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> Everything looks OK except it doesn't work--ping -> "Destination host
> unreachable." The router shows that it's connected and 'ifup eth1'
> returns "already running." I shut it down with 'ifdown eth1' and then
> repeated 'ifup eth1' and it told me "done." But there's still no IP
> address showing and still can't ping the router.
> 
> But why do I get the bit rate error? I've tried 'iwconfig eth1 rate
> auto' and 'iwconfig eth1 rate 11M auto.' 
> 
> Here's iwconfig result:
> 
> [BEGIN]
> eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"default"  Nickname:"sonyc.localdomain"
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point:
> nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn
>           Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
>           Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Encryption key:nnnn-nnnn-nn   Security mode:open
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality=37/92  Signal level=-51 dBm  Noise level=-88 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> [root at sonyc ~]# ifup eth1
> Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
>     SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.
> 
> Determining IP information for eth1...dhclient(3261) is already running
> - exitin g.
> exiting.
>  failed.
> [root at sonyc ~]# ping 192.168.0.1
> PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> >From 192.168.0.100 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
> 
> [END]
> 
> EB
'ifconfig' shows an eth1 with the MAC address of my wireless and an IP
address. Is it possible that something is making the computer "think"
that it's a cable connection and that's why it can't make the wireless
connection?
EB
> 
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