Fedora Core 9, networking problem

[mstshtml]

Hello all,
I am currently dual booting my laptop with Fedora Core 9, and Vista Ultimate. I used to use fedora more, but havnt switched to that operating system in a while. anyway for some reason network manager isnt working like it used to. I try to enable the wireless connection and it keeps failing and saying "unable to Set bit Rate (8B20)"
I am still new to fedora so don't really know whats going on.
Anyhelp would be appreciated.
Thank you.
-Steve

[danielsmw]

Did this happen after you installed Vista, or does it just happen to something arbitrary that happened after you hadn't booted to Fedora in a while? I know Vista likes to mess with some stuff that's quite annoying when you're dual-booting (the system clock, for example...) but I haven't seen it mess with wireless yet.

[mstshtml]

This is something that just happened after not booting fedora in a while. I did realize that vista messes with the system clock though, but as of now thats the least of my worries. I just need to get internet on fedora working again. and basically when I go into network manager now, If i try to enable a device, the device just doesnt let me enable nor disable. both those buttons are greyed out of that makes any sense.
-steve

[danielsmw]

Try manually bringing up your network devices. Run

/sbin/ifconfig

And see if your eth0 interface is even up. If not, try:

su -c '/sbin/ifconfig eth0 up'

If you can get eth0 up, you may need to manually run /sbin/dh-client to lease an IP from your dhcp server.

All of that is assuming an ethernet connection, which I'm guess you can't get since you said you need to get Fedora on the internet in general. If it's just wireless, then do the same but replace eth0 with your wireless interface (wlan0, maybe?)

Anyway, let me know if eth0/wlan0 are even up and running.