[NTLUG:Discuss] Problem with wireless

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	Are you assigning the IP manually (static) or using DHCP? Is DHCP running if you are doing the latter?

Robert Thompson


On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 08:13:28AM -0600, Blue Dragon wrote:
> I had to recently reinstall the OS on my laptop to fix a number of
> problems that have occured.  After reinstalling the OS and having the
> madwifi drivers sucessfully installed I am able to pick up other
> wireless networks but not able to get an IP address though.  The
> latest version of the madwifi drivers seem to no longer use the athX
> device and only use the wifi0 instead.  They also state that all
> configuration is done through wlanconfigure instead of iwconfig.
> 
> I am using Fedora Core 6.
> 
> Any ideas on how to get this to work this time?
> The network devices only show wifi0 and it's listed as an ethernet
> device.  Before it would also list ath0 as a wireless device and did
> work wirelessly.
> 
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