[NTLUG:Discuss] Problem with wireless

[Blue Dragon]

I figured it out.  Apparently it has some weird setup where I had to 
enter the WEP information in a few places.  Eventually I found the right 
configuration utility that got it working.

ntlug at thorshammer.org wrote:
> 	Are you assigning the IP manually (static) or using DHCP? Is DHCP running if you are doing the latter?
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> Robert Thompson
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> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 08:13:28AM -0600, Blue Dragon wrote:
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>> 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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