Wireless PCMCIA Card Problem

[alan_daniel]

I recently upgraded from FC2 to FC3, running it on an IBM Thinkpad. While using FC2, I was able to get my Linksys Wireless Card working pretty easily, using ndiswrapper, but since the upgrade, the wlan0 network connection has been inactive, and I can't seem to get it to work. Using the Network Configuration tools, I try to activate it, and although it worked fine with FC2, now it is telling me this:

"Device wlan0 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring"

And then it just doesn't do anything. It won't activate it or anything. I tried removing and re-loading the device driver using ndiswrapper and the driver I used for FC2, but it still won't work.

Any suggestions? Or does anyone know what's even going on?

Thanks for any help

[Brian1]

Do you have the orinoco_cs module loaded. ' lsmod ' to list modules. If try ' modprobe orinoco '. If that does not work then you will need to compile the kernel and add the hermes modules to it. Should be under /lib/modules/**current running kernel version**/kernel/drivers/net/wireless

Does your /etc/modprobe.conf define your eth* nic?

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[Void Main]

What model is your linksys card? I use the LinkSys WPC55AG. It's an Atheros based chipset so the madwifi drivers work with it. I have to download the latest CVS of madwifi for it to work in FC3 but it works flawlessly. Just have to do a "make; make intall" in the CVS download directory and that's it. Of course if your LinkSys card is not Atheros based then ignore all of this.

[jarifed]

you can try this out

Applications-Systems Settings-Network

Your wlan device should be vissible eg wlan0

Double click device wlan0

Dialog Ethernet device opens up

Select tab hardware device

This will show a Bind to MAC address (note mac address)

Carry out Probe

This will change the device to the correct Mac Address (if not the same)