Fedora 8 Wireless Problem

[waterhead]

You can insert that into the thread by using the 'code' option, like this.

       Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                   38485  2 
vfat                   13249  1 
fat                    45277  1 vfat
rfcomm                 36825  0 
l2cap                  25537  9 rfcomm
bluetooth              49316  4 rfcomm,l2cap
autofs4                20421  2 
sunrpc                140765  1 
nf_conntrack_ipv4      11717  5 
ipt_REJECT              7617  2 
iptable_filter          6465  1 
ip_tables              14213  1 iptable_filter
xt_tcpudp               6977  8 
nf_conntrack_ipv6      18769  5 
xt_state                6081  10 
nf_conntrack           51977  3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,xt_state
nfnetlink               8281  3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_conntrack
ip6t_ipv6header         6209  2 
ip6t_REJECT             8257  2 
ip6table_filter         6337  1 
ip6_tables             15109  2 ip6t_ipv6header,ip6table_filter
x_tables               14277  7 ipt_REJECT,ip_tables,xt_tcpudp,xt_state,ip6t_ipv6header,ip6t_REJECT,ip6_tables
ext3                  111177  1 
jbd                    52585  1 ext3
loop                   16581  0 
dm_multipath           18249  0 
ipv6                  245989  16 nf_conntrack_ipv6,ip6t_REJECT
snd_intel8x0           30429  3 
snd_ac97_codec         92389  1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus                6081  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy           6725  0 
snd_seq_oss            29889  0 
8139cp                 21697  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      9793  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                44849  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         10061  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            37569  0 
8139too                24513  0 
firewire_ohci          18113  0 
snd_mixer_oss          16705  1 snd_pcm_oss
mii                     8385  2 8139cp,8139too
firewire_core          36097  1 firewire_ohci
snd_pcm                63685  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
crc_itu_t               6081  1 firewire_core
i2c_i801               12113  0 
snd_timer              20549  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
iTCO_wdt               13797  0 
i2c_core               21825  1 i2c_i801
button                 10321  0 
serio_raw               9029  0 
parport_pc             26981  0 
snd                    43461  15 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
parport                32393  1 parport_pc
iTCO_vendor_support     7109  1 iTCO_wdt
soundcore               9633  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         11337  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
joydev                 11649  0 
sg                     31965  0 
sr_mod                 17509  0 
cdrom                  33889  1 sr_mod
usb_storage            72961  1 
dm_snapshot            17765  0 
dm_zero                 5825  0 
dm_mirror              21569  0 
dm_mod                 46209  8 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ata_generic             8901  0 
ata_piix               16709  4 
libata                 99633  2 ata_generic,ata_piix
sd_mod                 27329  7 
scsi_mod              119757  5 sg,sr_mod,usb_storage,libata,sd_mod
ext2                   55625  1 
mbcache                10177  2 ext3,ext2
uhci_hcd               23633  0 
ohci_hcd               21445  0 
ehci_hcd               31693  0

I don't even see NDISwrapper being loaded. Make sure you do these commands.

modprobe ndiswrapper

ndiswrapper -m

ndiswrapper -ma

ndiswrapper -mi

[Huntsman191]

thanks for the advice. I thought it might have been a bit big. When I ran ndiswrapper -m I got

 module configuration already contains alias directory

when I ran -ma and -mi it said

 module configuration is stored in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.

Where do I go from here?

[waterhead]

Check the output of lsmod again for ndiswrapper (no need to post it again). If it is present, try again to configure it as a network card. if it isn't, we need to find out why.

[Huntsman191]

ndiswrapper is in lsmod but GUI network configuration wont recognise any wireless card.. any ideas waterhead? you've been a great help so far.

[waterhead]

I don't feel like I've helped much, since the wireless still isn't working.

You may want to resort to terminal commands to get this to work. Here are some:

ifconfig
iwconfig
ifup
ifdown
iwlist
dhclient

For each of these commands, type in man<command> for the manual. Also <command> --help will give info on a command.

For now, run the ifconfig and iwconfig commands without any options, and post the output here.

[Huntsman191]

Sorry for the delay but im having some trouble with Fedora. Its having loads of boot issues. Whenever i run any wireless related command as root it freeezes irreparably and it also does this sometimes when im on a standard account. Also, Fedora will freeze during boot if i have my external USB wireless device plugged in and i cant get around this by plugging it in after boot as soon as i plug it in, Fedora 8 freezes and i have to turn it off at the power. Do you know how to fix this? I cant run the wireless commands till i do.

[waterhead]

That is beyond the scope of this thread, but it could be a hardware problem. Possibly a bad power supply or just bad USB ports.

Maybe you can try a Live CD distro like Linux Mint. If there are no problems, then it may be time for a fresh install. Fedora 10 is due out in 9 days.

[Huntsman191]

Thanks for all the help waterhead. Ive tried fixing it to no avail. I think im just going to wait for Fedora 10. When i have it up and running ill just post here again, and maybe we can continue from where we left off. Thanks again for all the help.

[Huntsman191]

hey again waterheard...

I decided to wait for Fedora 10 but when i go to download it, what do you know, i get 404 errors on all the torrents. If anybody has a working TORRENT file, please could you do me a favour and post the link. Thanks?

Back to wireless. ive just re-installed Fedora 8 and it no longer freezes/crashes which is good however im back to the very beginning with ndiswrapper. Whenever i run make and make install in the directory (first commands i run to try and install) it prints off maybe 5 lines and says error 2. Any ideas waterhead? Hopefully i can get this solved once and for all!

Thanks so much..

[waterhead]

Install NDISwrapper with YUM instead of compiling it from source.

As for the Fedora 10 errors. I'm sure that the servers are overloaded. That can happen when a new version is released. Give it a day or two to calm down.