[Novices] wireless problem fedora 4

[Eric Beversluis]

UPDATE
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 09:27 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 09:15 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > I can't get my wireless to work.
> READ ALL THE WAY THROUGH--ADDENDUM BELOW
> > 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
> > 
OK. Well I went in and shut down both eth0 (cable) and eth1 (wireless),
made sure that the cable for eth0 was disconnected and then ran 'ifup
eth0'. This finally worked. Also when I restarted without the ethernet
cable I was able to activate eth1 wireless. So at least now I'm in. I'll
probably experiment some to see what the "rules of engagement" are
between the two eth's and if I just can't try to have both up at once.

Thanks for reading all this. 
EB
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