How to activate wireless via terminal?

[CamoAnimal]

Hi, I've been running fedora 8 for a while, but apparently not long enough, because I installed a ATI driver on my Nvidia card! Well, despite my bad situation I can still get to terminal, but only terminal. I have a qwl3495 card. (Should have seen that coming! :rolleyes: ) So, its wireless/ethernet capable. Is there a way to activate either through terminal so that I can dowload the proper drivers via YUM again?

[voodoodoc]

One thing that might be better is to just disable the ATI driver. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and make the device section look like the following:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
EndSection

That will get you using the open source nvidia driver.

To start up your wireless, assuming you have it installed correctly. iwconfig is your friend, check out the manpage.

In short:
iwconfig ethX essid SSID key KEY
dhclient ethX

Replace X, SSID, and KEY as appropriate. If its an unsecured network don't need KEY.

[CamoAnimal]

thanks!

Oh, and as far as disabling the fglrx driver, I tried that a couple days ago, and even though I told it to use the NV ones, it would reset the file to use the ATI based drivers! Go figure...

[voodoodoc]

Are you sure your editing the file as root?

Remove the fglrx module then. modprobe -r you can even add it to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. Or yum remove kmod-fglrx I think it is to get rid of it.