Wireles internet setup on RHEL 5

[Rushishah]

I have recently installed RHEL 5 on my laptop(dual boot with windows 7).
My Wi-Fi wireless internet connection works fine on windows 7.
I am having trouble with using the same connection on RHEL 5.
How do I go about setting up this Wi-Fi wireless internet connection on RHEL?

Any suggestion on this is highly appreciated.

[oz]

Any suggestion on this is highly appreciated.

Hello and welcome!

I don't run any wireless at all so can't help with it much but check this link to get you started troubleshooting this issue:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...tart-here.html

[MikeTbob]

I am having trouble with using the same connection on RHEL 5.

That's because RHEL uses older kernels....Try another distro unless you have good reason to use RHEL. Fedora is very similar.

[Rushishah]

Thanks for your responses.
As suggested by you I need to run a few commands shown in link.
and then I should post the output.

But as I am not able to connect to internet on linux OS,I won't be able to post the
output.
Kindly suggest how I can share files between windows 7 and RHEL in a dual boot machine so that I can upload the putput.

[MikeTbob]

From the wireless setup link

Enter these commands in a terminal and post the output in your thread. If you need to use Windows to connect to the internet, then save the output in a text editor application. Common Linux text editors are Gedit and Kwrite. When you save the file, add a .txt extension to the name, so that Windows will recognize it as a text file and open it.

[bikku]

fact is that ,i had the same problem with rhel 5
so,after a month, i have to shift for fedora
so my advice is that don,t waste ur energy and time as is wasted my me .
please shift to fedora.

you can download fedora 13
from fedora website.

go to google and then search for fedora 13 iso image.



any query??????????????????

[HROAdmin26]

From the wireless setup link
Quote:
Enter these commands in a terminal and post the output in your thread. If you need to use Windows to connect to the internet, then save the output in a text editor application. Common Linux text editors are Gedit and Kwrite. When you save the file, add a .txt extension to the name, so that Windows will recognize it as a text file and open it.

Unfortunately this will not work. RHEL does not have any way to read NTFS by default. There are numerous articles about installing ntfs-3g on RHEL, but it's not there by default.

This is just another reason for inexperienced users *not* to put an enterprise distro on a laptop.

[reed9]

Unfortunately this will not work. RHEL does not have any way to read NTFS by default. There are numerous articles about installing ntfs-3g on RHEL, but it's not there by default.

This is just another reason for inexperienced users *not* to put an enterprise distro on a laptop.

I think the idea would be to put the text file to a usb stick or the like and transfer over to windows. Though in general I agree with not using an enterprise distro on a laptop, unless you have good reason to.

[Rushishah]

Please find below contents of output file wireless_setup file.


============ lspci ============

============ lsusb ============
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 008 Device 003: ID 058f:6387 Alcor Micro Corp.
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 5986:0145
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

============ lsmod ============
Module Size Used by
vfat 15809 1
fat 51037 1 vfat
usb_storage 76577 1
autofs4 23749 2
hidp 23105 2
rfcomm 42457 0
l2cap 29505 10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth 53925 5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 142973 1
ip_conntrack_ftp 11697 0
ip_conntrack_netbios_ns 6977 0
ipt_REJECT 9537 1
xt_state 6209 10
ip_conntrack 53153 3 ip_conntrack_ftp,ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,xt_state
nfnetlink 10713 1 ip_conntrack
iptable_filter 7105 1
ip_tables 17029 1 iptable_filter
ip6t_REJECT 9409 1
xt_tcpudp 7105 26
ip6table_filter 6849 1
ip6_tables 18181 1 ip6table_filter
x_tables 17349 6 ipt_REJECT,xt_state,ip_tables,ip6t_REJECT,xt_tcpud p,ip6_tables
cpufreq_ondemand 10573 1
video 19269 0
sbs 18533 0
i2c_ec 9025 1 sbs
i2c_core 23745 1 i2c_ec
button 10705 0
battery 13637 0
asus_acpi 19289 0
ac 9157 0
ipv6 251137 19 ip6t_REJECT
parport_pc 29157 0
lp 15849 0
parport 37513 2 parport_pc,lp
joydev 13185 0
sr_mod 19813 0
cdrom 36705 1 sr_mod
sg 35933 0
serio_raw 10693 0
pcspkr 7105 0
dm_snapshot 20581 0
dm_zero 6209 0
dm_mirror 29713 0
dm_mod 56537 8 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ahci 21573 2
libata 96857 1 ahci
sd_mod 22977 5
scsi_mod 130637 6 usb_storage,sr_mod,sg,ahci,libata,sd_mod
ext3 123081 2
jbd 56553 1 ext3
ehci_hcd 32845 0
ohci_hcd 23261 0
uhci_hcd 25421 0

============ dmesg-firmware ============

============ kernel version ============
2.6.18-8.el5

============ ifconfig ============
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1868 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1868 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3603172 (3.4 MiB) TX bytes:3603172 (3.4 MiB)


============ iwconfig ============


I also received the following message after executing WirelessSetup file prepared by you.

[root@localhost ~]# ./WirelessSetup
lspci: invalid option -- k
Usage: lspci [<switches>]

-v Be verbose
-n Show numeric ID's
-b Bus-centric view (PCI addresses and IRQ's instead of those seen by the CPU)
-x Show hex-dump of the standard portion of config space
-xxx Show hex-dump of the whole config space (dangerous; root only)
-xxxx Show hex-dump of the 4096-byte extended config space (root only)
-s [[[[<domain>]:]<bus>]:][<slot>][.[<func>]] Show only devices in selected slots
-d [<vendor>]:[<device>] Show only selected devices
-t Show bus tree
-m Produce machine-readable output
-i <file> Use specified ID database instead of /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids
-D Always show domain numbers
-M Enable `bus mapping' mode (dangerous; root only)
-P <dir> Use specified directory instead of /proc/bus/pci
-H <mode> Use direct hardware access (<mode> = 1 or 2)
-F <file> Read configuration data from given file
-G Enable PCI access debugging
lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.




please check the output and suggest me what I need to do.
Thank you.

[Rushishah]

Kindly update gurus.