WiFi Connection in FC3

Alright I just bought a ENCORE 54Mbps Wireless Router which can be found here

I got this to work with my Gateway Solo 9550 XL which is running Fedora Core 3


I have not yet configured any form of WEP or WPA, I was gonna wait till I could get a base connection up.


This is about as much as I can do on my own. The best I've done routing around FC3 is to find a program called KWiFiManager and since the auto search this one has didn't work I've offically stumped myself.


I realize this is probally a stupid, broad ended question that basically everyone on this board has asked a thousand times over but I just ask you you bear with me because I am an idiot.

Well what kind of wireless card is it? How many network interfaces are on the box?

It's a 802.11B Mini PCI Radio Card

http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/...01074cl3.shtml


It's the default card with the laptop

Could you open a terminal, su to your root account, run iwconfig, and post the output?

This link does not say to much of which chipset is used in your WLAN adapter,

however if you could post the output from the command

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lspci

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here on the forum, it might be easier to help you out.
And, have to mention this, do the command as "root" :)

Neither of those commands are found

Can you do:

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su -
ifconfig -a

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And how many interfaces do you have?

Try (as root)

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/sbin/iwconfig

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and

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/sbin/lspci

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and if those don't work try

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/usr/sbin/iwconfig

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and

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/usr/sbin/lspci

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[root@localhost aeuzent]# /sbin/lwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:""  Nickname:"HERMES I"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s  Tx-Power=15 dBm  Sensitivity:1/3
          Retry limit:4  RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

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[root@localhost aeuzent]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 41)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 Go] (rev b2)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:07.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:07.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:07.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4451 IEEE-1394 Controller
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 41)
02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 12)

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dhclient eth1

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and you should be set