Newbie Wireless Problems

[adssse]

I just installed FC3 a couple days ago and am trying to get my wireless working. I am using a PCMCIA Netgear MA401 card that I have previously used under Windows 2000 and Damn Small Linux without difficulty. I went into the Network Configuration and pressed New when in the devices tab. It found my card, set it up as eth1 and everything seemed fine except when I go to activate it it says "Determining IP information for eth1..." and after a little bit ends with "Determining IP information for eth1... failed". So I have been unable to get this to work and dont really know how to do much in Linux yet to figure this out. When I go to KWiFiManager it shows my signal strength as 100 and it seems to see my Access Point because it shows the network name. When I press Cinfig- Configuration Editor and enter in the network name, pick infrastructure, set up the encryption and the sort the Connection Speed bar in KWiFiManager turns completely green. I hope I provided enough needed information. I would really appreciate any help and just ask for anyone to explain thoroughly since I have no experience.

[jim]

Try network manager

as root ( su - )
chkconfig networkmanger on
service networkmanager start

exit out of root

type

NetworkManagerInfo

See my page link in my signature and look for FC3 and ipw2200 see bottom of page

[adssse]

ok I went into root and typed

chkconfig NetworkManager on
chkconfig NetworkManager start

it gave me this:
Setting network parameters: [OK]
Starting NetworkManager daemon: [OK]

then I typed exit to get out of root
then I typed:

NetworkManagerInfo

it gave me this:

** (NetworkManagerInfo:4548): WARNING **: Failed to send buffer
** (NetworkManagerInfo:4548): WARNING **: Failed to send buffer

I am not sure what this means but I know its not good.

[jim]

rpm -qa | grep NetworkManager
post the results of the above command

[adssse]

results:
NetworkManager-0.3.1-3
NetworkManager-gnome-0.3.1-3

I also looked at your website. I tried right clicking on the little radar in the toolbar and entered my network name. Now it looks like a blue blur going in a circle with two little gray balls. I didnt see a place to enter in my encryption key though. Thanks for the help so far.

[jim]

thats a very old version of Network Manager the one that was buggy !!!
what kernel are you using?
uname -r

if you just installed and haven't updaetd yet, You need to first as most of your problems will be solved with the updates
I reinstalled on my notebook last night after i got it back. 29 minutes to install 2 hours of updates grab a coffee or go to bed
yum update


you need to clickthe encryption check box to add your key

[adssse]

uname -r

2.6.9-1.667

hmm... I have not tried getting my ethernet connection to work yet, or even if it works at all (bought laptop of ebay a while back and have used the wireless card since I have had it). Is there anyway to download the updates on another computer, burn them and install them from a cd?? Or should I switch gears and see if I can get the wired connection working??

[adssse]

ok I was able to get my ethernet connection going with my laptop. So now I should update correct?? I was wondering what the difference was between "yum update" and "up2date"? Also yum gave me some error having to do with "GPG keys". As I said I am new to this, so I am sorry for all the questions.

[jim]

See this page
http://www.fedorajim.homelinux.com/pages/rookieguide.html

[adssse]

thanks for the link. I got everything updated but I am still unable to get my wireless card (mentioned above) to activate. All I get is "Determining IP information for eth1... failed.", I have no idea what to try next.

[adssse]

Alright, I was finally able to get it working. Thank you very much fedorajim, it probably gets annoying answering questions like mine but I appreciate you teaching me.

[/root]

hey dude,

i'm new here, and there is a same problem to me. i hv tried to add new device for my wireless card, however my wireless card is not showing in the list then i choose the option "other wireless card", and i found the model of my wireless card "Allied Telesyn".
After i'd completed the configuration settings, and Activate it, a dialog box "alt1700 not present, delaying initiazation" is shown. I think the problem will occur because the device is not found and since i don't know how to install my wireless card driver into the linux box :confused:
my wireless card model:

Allied Teleysn AT-WCL 452 Wireless 802.11b PCMCIA Radio;

which works fine in the windows platform.

this is the result of lspci

...

Network controller: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev01)

...

what is this statement representating????is it showing my wireless card adapter????
In my view, i think it is my wireless device but i'm not sure. Please correct me if i'm wrong coz i'm newbie to linux and now start to learn more about it. Any help is highly appreciated.

tq in advance,

[jim]

you need to download and install the driver for your card maybe a kernel module and possibly a firmware set

Go to the manufactures website and see if they have a linux driver set. If so, download and read the READNE file located in the download. Any problems after that post a new thread stating your problems.

If there isn't a driver available, You most likly can use a application called madwifi. Do a search here
for madwifi install and look around.

[/root]

to fedorajim:

fisrt of all, thanks for reply.

ok, now i downloaded my wireless card's driver from the Allied Telesyn official site, n i was successfully untar the package using the command:

tar zxvf linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre5.tar.gz

and change the dir to linux-wlan-ng.0.1.16-pre5 but my first problem is when i tried to type "configure" command in the shell, there is no such command.

After tat i tried the following command:

ls

and the "configure" do exist in the package in the green color text, then i tired to open up the file n double clicked it, it worked!!!! and there is 2 new files added, config.mk and config.new. Can u tell me how could it be???

the second problem is then i tried to drop the following command :

make all

but the configuration process is failed. i'll try to send the failed message in later time....

regards,

[/root]

[k0b3_bryant08@localhost linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre5]$ make all
set -e; for d in src doc man etc; do make -C $d ; done
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/k0b3_bryant08/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre5/src'
set -e; for d in mkmeta p80211 prism2 shared wlanctl wland nwepgen wlancfg; do make -C $d ; done
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/k0b3_bryant08/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre5/src/mkmeta'
M -I../include -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__LINUX_WLAN__ ../shared/p80211types.c ../shared/p80211metamsg.c ../shared/p80211metamib.c ../shared/p80211meta.c mkmetadef.c ../shared/p80211types.c ../shared/p80211metamsg.c ../shared/p80211metamib.c ../shared/p80211meta.c mkmetastruct.c > .depend
/bin/sh: M: command not found
make[2]: [.depend] Error 127 (ignored)
mkdir -p obj
c -I../include -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__LINUX_WLAN__ ../shared/p80211types.c -o obj/p80211types.o
make[2]: c: Command not found
make[2]: [obj/p80211types.o] Error 127 (ignored)
c -I../include -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__LINUX_WLAN__ ../shared/p80211metamsg.c -o obj/p80211metamsg.o
make[2]: c: Command not found
make[2]: [obj/p80211metamsg.o] Error 127 (ignored)
c -I../include -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__LINUX_WLAN__ ../shared/p80211metamib.c -o obj/p80211metamib.o
make[2]: c: Command not found
make[2]: [obj/p80211metamib.o] Error 127 (ignored)
c -I../include -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__LINUX_WLAN__ ../shared/p80211meta.c -o obj/p80211meta.o
make[2]: c: Command not found
make[2]: [obj/p80211meta.o] Error 127 (ignored)
c -I../include -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__LINUX_WLAN__ mkmetadef.c -o obj/mkmetadef.o
make[2]: c: Command not found
make[2]: [obj/mkmetadef.o] Error 127 (ignored)
o mkmetadef obj/p80211types.o obj/p80211metamsg.o obj/p80211metamib.o obj/p80211meta.o obj/mkmetadef.o
make[2]: o: Command not found
make[2]: [mkmetadef] Error 127 (ignored)
cat mkmetadefhead.txt > ../include/wlan/p80211metadef.h
./mkmetadef >> ../include/wlan/p80211metadef.h
/bin/sh: ./mkmetadef: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [mkmetadef] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/k0b3_bryant08/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre5/src/mkmeta'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/k0b3_bryant08/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre5/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2


and this is the error message when i tried to "make auto_config" the driver


[k0b3_bryant08@localhost linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre5]$ make auto_config

-------------- Linux WLAN Configuration Script -------------

The default responses are correct for most users.

Build Prism2.x PCMCIA Card Services (_cs) driver? (y/n) [y]

Build Prism2 PLX9052 based PCI (_plx) adapter driver? (y/n) [n]

Build Prism2.5 native PCI (_pci) driver? (y/n) [n]

Build Prism2.5 USB (_usb) driver? (y/n) [n]

Linux source directory [/usr/src/linux]
Linux source tree /usr/src/linux is incomplete or missing!
See the HOWTO for a list of FTP sites for current kernel sources.

Configuration failed

make: *** [auto_config] Error 1




am i missing sumting that cause these errors occur??????

[jim]

do you have gcc installed
rpm -qa | grep gcc
if you don't then stop! you need to get it
yum install gcc gcc-c++

if you do then
the configure part is as follows
./configure
if no errors then
make
if no errors
su to root
make install

[/root]

i did have gcc in my box ....

and i found this error when i tried to install pcmcia dirver:

[root@localhost pcmcia-cs-3.2.8]# make install

-------- Linux PCMCIA Configuration Script --------

The default responses for each question are correct for most users.
Consult the PCMCIA-HOWTO for additional info about each option.

Linux kernel source directory [/usr/src/linux]:
Linux source tree '/usr/src/linux' is incomplete or missing!
See the HOWTO for a list of FTP sites for current kernel sources.

Configuration failed.

make: *** [.prereq.ok] Error 1



then i went to search the directory stated, n i found that i don't hv the kernel source in /usr/src and the onli file that contains in this directory is "Redhat". is it necessary for me to install the kernel source b4 continue everything and if so how can i install the kernel source????

[/root]

hey dude, i'd already downloaded the neccessary updates using ehternet connection in the box as mentioned from the previous threads but it seems not resovle my problem and i still can't find the linux source code .....

there is a new kerenel installed in my box

[root@localhost ~]rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.9-1.667
kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3

can anyone tells me how to locate the kernel source code (Fedora Core 3) in the box????? or esle any solutions to help me to resolve this problem????

i really need help !!!!

[jim]

SRPMS at fedoras download site
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/SRPMS/

look for kernel version you want
download it and if you use rpm to install it it will install it into some directory just don't remember
But if you open it with archive manager you can extract the contents to where ever you wish.

[/root]

before that i'd downloaded the kernel source code for kernel 2.6.9-1.667 at :

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/SRPMS/ (is this the same???)

but it dosen't work...... and there are lots of erros message displayed.

ok, since i'd downloaded the updated kernel, i'll try and see . ;)

[/root]

....lots of erros message

soli for wrong information...... there is not error message there, it is a warning when i tried to install the rpm source (kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm).

n follow the guidance given by the REAMDE

# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm
1:kernel ########################################### [100%]

# rpmbuild -bp --target=noarch /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec

The source files will be properly located in '/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9'

the warning message appeared in the "1:kernel" and i forgot what is the warning wrote about.......

[jim]

try getting the latest kernel version srpm

[/root]

the problem still unchange after i'd tried to install the srpm. This time there is no warning message again when installing the srpm and everything goes well.

here is the problem:

[root@localhost linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre5]# ./Configure

-------------- Linux WLAN Configuration Script -------------

The default responses are correct for most users.

Build Prism2.x PCMCIA Card Services (_cs) driver? (y/n) [y]:

Build Prism2 PLX9052 based PCI (_plx) adapter driver? (y/n) [n]:

Build Prism2.5 native PCI (_pci) driver? (y/n) [n]:

Build Prism2.5 USB (_usb) driver? (y/n) [n]:

Linux source directory [/usr/src/linux]: /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.11/linux-2.6.11
Linux source tree /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.11/linux-2.6.11 is incomplete or missing!
The kernel header files are present, but not the full source code.
See the HOWTO for a list of FTP sites for current kernel sources.

Configuration failed

please help, all my ideas have been running out !!!!!! :confused: :(