fedora core 8

[Polanski]

To whom it may concern,

I have recently installed fedora core 8 onto my ibm laptop and have lost my wireless internet connection. My card on the laptop is a built in wireless card and I would like to know how to configure everything manually using the terminal. I believe that the card is read as eth0 or lo I am not exactly sure, but I would like to input all the information for the internet connection through the terminal, information that includes the ip address, gateway address, essid, router passwd and everything else. What should I do through the terminal to get my internet connection back? I have tried multiple commands including iwconfig and dhclient and the card seems to detect the connection, I believe that all the information the card is detecting is not entirely correct. My router connection is dhcp it is not static it is dynamic. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Solust]

I don't know the answer to your question but I thought that you might like to know that eth0 is for wired connections. What you're looking for should be WLAN.

[mbokil]

There is no Fedora Core 8. Since the core and extra repos were merged it is just Fedora 8 now. No more core.

[Polanski]

When I ping the ip address it says that the network is unreachable? Also when I sudo iwlist eth1 scanning the wireless card finds my router and it is in Cell 01, but there are multiple cells with other peoples router names like Cell 02 is Dan's airport. I would like to make my router the only one that card can identify and therefore the only one it connects to. My question is how can I put everything in manually through the terminal to get the card activated. By everything I mean the ip address, gateway, and so on? It seems like I need to somehow force the card to only detect my router and get the router to detect the card on the laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I would really like my internet back on my laptop. My internet connection is also dhcp and has wep protection 128 bits, I know the passphrase. Thank you for your help.

[Polanski]

I have just installed fedora 8 i386 and my wireless card is located at eth1 under /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1 and also under defaults profiles where the same place devices is. The only problem is when I put in the ip address and the gateway address and try to activate it with the gui under system >administration>network this message comes up:

Component: system-config-network
Version: 1.4.3
Summary: TB6a01f5ed wirelessconfig.py:119:hydrate:ValueError: list.index(x): x not in list

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 1209, in on_generic_clist_button_release_event
apply (func)
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 839, in on_deviceEditButton_clicked
button = self.editDevice(device)
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 868, in editDevice
dialog = device.getDialog()
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/plugins/NCDevWireless.py", line 48, in getDialog
dialog = _devWirelessDialog(self)
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/wirelessconfig.py", line 51, in __init__
DeviceConfigDialog.__init__(self, glade_file, device)
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/DeviceConfigDialog.py", line 69, in __init__
self.hydrate()
File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/wirelessconfig.py", line 119, in hydrate
match_row = values.index(wl.Mode)
ValueError: list.index(x): x not in list

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <netconfpkg.gui.wirelessconfig.wirelessConfigDialog instance at 0x94f7fac>
r: <gtk.TreeModelRow object at 0x93013e0>
values: ['Auto', 'Ad-Hoc', 'Managed', 'Master']
wl: Wireless.Rate=
Wireless.Mode=
Wireless.Key=
Wireless.Channel=
Wireless.EssId=
I erased my info under all the wireless stuff like wireless essid and so on so no one can get into my router. Any help would be greatly appreciated to fix this problem, Also this is after I tried the live gnome i686 cd or dvd which worked flawlessly and why I decided to install fedora 8 onto my ibm laptop. It will not let me into my router for the wireless internet connection and I would like it back. Putting all my router information through the terminal into ifcfg-eth1 worked for the live cd, why won't it work for the install cd on fedora 8? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[johnnash]

Have you tried out this?

http://paulsdigitalworld.blogspot.com/2007/11/ubuntu-fedora-linux-hardware-working.html

I don't think Fedora has much problem with recognizing the intel wireless card now. It's more how you configure the services etc.

[Polanski]

My card is activated, under system>administration>network, the only problem is that the laptop is not detecting it, I will try what the last post says but if that does not work are there any alternatives maybe somehow putting in the wep encryption passphrase through ifcfg-eth1 which is where the settings are located? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also my protection is wep not wpa. The card is activated, all I need is for the computer to find the connection to the internet through the card. Everything is setup like the ip address and gateway address, the only thing I am having a problem with is where to put the passphrase for the wep connection? I have everything else. In gnome live cd there was a portion on my toolbar where I would see all the connections that the card detected and when I clicked on mine the computer would bring up a gui asking me for the passphrase. The fedora 8 does not have that it has a status bar showing my connection properties and under that it has name: status:, Network device:,type: address: mac address, and activity:, received:. sent:, signal strength:. I would like my internet back on my laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated. In modprobe.conf the card or device is listed as orinoco_pci and the card is called intersil corporation 2.5 wavelan chipset, what should I call it in place of orinoco_pci?

[Polanski]

It seems that the wireless card internet connection is automatically identified as a ethernet connection and the device is labeled eth1:0 instead of wlan0. How can I change the identification of the card from eth1:0 to wlan0 through the command line? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Polanski]

Does anyone know where I can find a good computer store that provides services for a linux operating system? I place in the Los Angeles area specifically silverlake or hollywood. I need help installing my dvd burner that I got for my desktop. I plugged it into the desktop but when I put the fedora 8 live cd into the burner it does not boot from the live cd and when I go to the bios setup the burner is not detected. I need a place in L.A. that provides service for Linux. I do not want to go to geek squad or firedog. Any help would be greatly appreciated.