James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Lan Barnes wrote:
First, thank you Jim, Gus, and Carl (and Robert for moral support) for the
help yesterday on this. I'm still stuck, but I feel smarter.
Here's where I am. I reinstalled the machine w/ Fedora 8. The wireless
still doesn't work. Jim and I established at the installfest to our own
satisfaction that the machine's card is OK. We concluded that there was a
probable version incompatability between the kernel and the card module as
it was installed on Saturday.
I went to F8 following Gus's advice that it has much better wireless
support. I now believe he's right. I suspect I'm stuck right now in a
configuration ignorance. Presumably, F8 is all compatable already.
The machine is a "Great Quality NX-L515." That they have to call
themselves "Great Quality" should concern us all.
F8 is installed. /lib/firmware has all the correct rt*.bin files, so that
much looks healthy.
I am attaching a long text file with the results of every command I could
think of that might help the knowledgable. I stand ready to run other
commands that you send to me. With any kind of luck, we can lick this
thing over the list. However, if it takes it, I can bag it up and travel
to someone's home for hands-on troubleshooting. Let's consider that a last
resort.
<grin> I'm over here asking for a digital barn raising. How did people
live before mailing lists? (I can answer that -- in isolation.)
This seems like it's related, and provides a workaround, although..
..I don't think you want/need mode master.
Perhaps if you substitute managed for master?
It might be worth a gander and some experimenting
http://www.handhelds.org/pipermail/familiar/285/28554.html
Regards,
..jim
"iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed"
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