Dell Inspiron 1525/ Fedora 9

[Neophyte]

Yup, did that already. It's there.

[waterhead]

Post the output of this command.

iwconfig

It will list any wireless devices.

[Neophyte]

lo no wireless extensions

eth0 no wireless extensions

pan0 no wireless extensions

[waterhead]

Your wireless still isn't being detected. I'm at a loss what to do next.

Maybe you could manually create a config file for it in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/. I have a ifcfg-wlan0 file for my Atheros wireless, that looks like this.

# Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
DEVICE=wlan0
HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00
ONBOOT=no
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
USERCTL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
TYPE=Wireless
PEERDNS=yes
MODE=Managed
RATE=auto
ESSID=
CHANNEL=

You do need to find the MAC address and put it in the HWADDR= line.

[Neophyte]

Hi-

I tried manually making a config file, and this seems to have had no effect. (And yes, I did put in my computer's MAC address.)

Is setting up wireless in Linux always this difficult? Maybe there is something that is really obvious to you, so obvious that you wouldn't think to even give instructions about it, that is not obvious to me.

If you can think of anything, please let me know! Otherwise, thanks for your help!

[waterhead]

I'm not sure what else to try. Setting up a wireless can be very simple, but sometimes it's a royal pain. It usually depends on the cad that you are using. I think that yours is a wireless-n type, and support is very new for that.

I would recommend that you try NDISwrapper. It will use the WindowsXP driver for your card, provided you can find one. Vista drivers will not work. You need to remove any other driver that is loading for the wirless.

By the way, the MAC address needed in the config file is the one for the wireless network card. Each network device has a unique MAC address.

One other thing is to try a newer version of Fedora, as 10 is the latest. Or try a completely different distro, like Suse or Ubuntu. I still don't think the wireless will work without some configuring, though.

[Neophyte]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm going to upgrade to Fedora 10 this weekend and see what effect that has.