Please help with wireless

[Mr tim esquire]

Hi there initally the wireless worked out the box with fedora 8 KDE, but a recent update has killed my WIFI (it stopped working after i updated, and didnt do anything silly).

My laptop has a Intersil Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset
The wireless card is eth1

When i open the 'network device control' eth1 is inactive, so i click activate
and get

Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06):
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
Error for wireless request 2Set Frequency" (8B04) :
SET failedd on device eth1 ; Device or resource busy.

Determining IP for eth1... failed; no link present. check cable?

Ive had a fiddle arround with the settings in the netwirk config gui, restarted a few times and tried with an open network but no joy.

Any suggestions folks?
thank a bunch
tim

[Zero-Override]

seems like a kernel bug since a LOT of wireless connections have seemed to be dropping with that same errorcode =/
you should do a search for that errorcode and see what pops up ;)

[Mr tim esquire]

OK i got off my lazy arse and read some threads...

Under network configuration....edit....Wireless settings tab i set the mode to 'managed'

Thanks All!

[Zero-Override]

good job! ;)

[Mr tim esquire]

Turns out this wasnt a good fix, i keep having various problems connecting to networks, connections seem to be intermittant, i an doing a lot of fiddling.

I don't understand why these commands arnt working for me:

[root@localhost ~]# iwconfig
bash: iwconfig: command not found

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig
bash: ifconfig: command not found

[root@localhost ~]# lspci
bash: lspci: command not found

Are there some packages i need to install? or am i doing something wrong?
thanks
Tim

[pete_1967]

Either login with 'su -' to load root's $path or use absolute paths (/sbin/iwconfig etc)

[kevmif]

what kernel?

uname -a

[Mr tim esquire]

Thanks pete those suggestions work.
Kernel:

#uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.24.3-50.fc8 #1 SMP thur Mar 20 14:47:10 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

ill do a little investigation now ive got these tools working and get back to when im stuck again.
Also it seems my USB ports arn't working, will adress this later

I've got KDE
would things work 'out the box' more with gnome?

thanks
tim

[Zero-Override]

no, if it's a driver problem it will stay the same ;) KDE and GNOME are Desktop environments ;) so they manage where you put files on your desktop, and how to much things look pretty ;) it has nothing to do with drivers and support

and yes you need to be super root (su -) to access those tools ;)