quincy360@gmail.com

I just recently install fedora core 5 on my toshiba satellite A60/65 laptop. During installation, I set up DHCP to configure automaticall as oppose to inputting a static. However, Iam unable to configure my wireless card to view or connect to wireless network within range.

[B]I tried using these three commands to activate my wireless card:[/B]/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManger on
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 NetworkMangerDispatcher on
/sbin/service NetworkManger start ; /sbin/service NetworkManager Dispatcher start

THese commands enabled the icon displaying the connection status to appear in the panel...which reads " no network connection"

Here are the specific when I executed "ifconfig":
eth0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A01C5:B7

UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Interrupt:19 Base address:0xe000
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:2239 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:2239 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2356523 (2.2 MiB)
TX bytes:2356523 (2.2 MiB)


HERE ARE THE PCI INFO:

Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc R200 AGP Bridge [Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP]
(rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:13.0
USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:13.1
USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:13.2
USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc EHCI USB Controller (rev 01)
00:14.0
SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 1
00:14.1
IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Dual Channel Bus Master PCI IDE Controller
00:
14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 434c
00:14.4 PCI
bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4342
00:14.5
Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller
00:14.6
Modem: ATI Technologies Inc IXP AC'97 Modem (rev 01)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller:
ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility 7000 IGP02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications,
Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge:
Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
02:07.0
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
After executing iwconfig this is what I got:

lo no wireless extensions

eht0 no wireless extensions

sit0 no wireless extensions

I hope this detail enough information to help determining the problem

I'll really appreciate whatever help I can get.

tpl

from lspci, looks like yr wireless is

Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

you need to install a driver, so the kernel can recognize the card.

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...=atheros&go=Go

points you toward several. Or you can use the "madwifi" driver

http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/

I suggest reading the sticky in this "wireless internet" forum. Or google on "atheros wifi linux"

quincy360@gmail.com

I have the docs for yum, but it seems somewhat unclear to me...when a yum command is issued, the docs say it "downloads" the proper packages etc. Since I am trying to make a wireless system work, I obviously don't have access to the internet yet. Am I chasing my tail here issuing a command that "downloads" the proper package when I in fact don't even have access to the internet yet?

2) I ran the uname-r cmd to determine my kernel. It returned 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5. When I viewed the livna repository, I didn't see a madwifi kernel module-package that support this kernel. what do I do in this case?