To Brian Morrison
Your reply to my question, in the text below, was very quick. I am glad that you said my wireless card was okay with Fedora 11. I just think I need a good .pdf tutorial on how to use the Network-Manager. Can you recommend a good document that I might read?
I looked at the Network-Manager list, but it is huge! I did not know which entry to click on.
Thank-you.
Derek Starr
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:01:31 -0700 derek starr dereklinux@gmail.com wrote:
I looked at the Network-Manager list, but it is huge! I did not know which entry to click on.
I was thinking more of you asking a question about what exactly isn't working. Someone else asked about the firmware for the wireless card, you definitely need that loaded, which means installing the package.
If that isn't working, then ask.
If you look for iwlwifi entries in /var/log/messages it will tell you about things like firmware loading and NM attempting to bring up the connection. In addition you can try to bring it up manually using wpa_supplicant with appropriate arguments.
I suspect that looking at /var/log/messages will help to start with. Once you can see that the firmware is loaded, check to see if the iwl3945 module has been loaded using lsmod. That should be modprobed with the standard Fedora and NM scripts, but might not be without firmware being loaded.
HTH.
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