Re: Fedora 5 - Intel Pro/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI adapter woes.




Jack Snodgrass wrote:

Not sure if this is much help... I don't do wireless... or GUI
configs... but I do know that the iwlist program is in /sbin.
It's part of wireless-tools. If you have a /sbin/iwlist then
your probably tring to configure this using some id other than
root.... that's not going to work. If you don't have /sbin/iwlist,
then do yum install wireless-tools and try your gui configuration
stuff again.

jack

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jack - Grapevine/Richardson

Hi Jack.

Thanks for the prompt response and the info contained therein.
I did as you suggested by logging on as root but the device listings
are the same in the Network Configuration window. KwiFiManager, though,
now lists it as 'Not Connected' rather than disabled so I suppose
that's a step in the right direction at least. A scan for Networks from
here (although not picking up my AP's signals even when a couple of
feet away)
are at least not throwing up the errors I had earlier. Would I have to
be root to start Wireless functionality then?

I've looked in /sbin and there is an iwlist directory in there. This is
the root level sbin, I don't have one under my user name. I don't know
how to start up wireless-tools. I tried typing in wireless-tools at a
root command prompt but to no avail and tried yum install
wireless-tools just in case, which yielded the following response:

Loading "installonlyn" plugin.
Setting up Install Process.
Setting up Repositories.
Core
Error: cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core.

When I try the ADD/REMOVE SOFTWARE from the GUI I get an "unable to
retrieve software information" error.

iwconfig typed into the terminal from root comes back with:

lo no Wireless Extensions

eth0 no Wireless Extensions

sit0 no Wireless Extensions

I did a custom install loading just about everything so that I wouldn't
have stuff missing which, I think, makes things harder for a novice
such as myself. Perhaps something vital's not installed after all.

Do you think I should try a re-install as it's only a day old and so
there's no stuff I'm worried about losing on there.

Thanks again for your help.

Cheers.
Kush.

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