Thinkpad Wireless issues

[drunkahol]

Hi folks,

First impressions of FC5test2 - very impressed.

Tried the wireless network card in my Thinkpad T40 - no joy :(

Anyone else have any wireless experiences with FC5test2 yet?

The specifics are:

Thinkpad T40
eth0 - AIRONET Wireless Communications Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b
eth1 - Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile)

First thing that gets me is that every other OS I've booted or installed on this lappy has configured the network ports the other way round (i.e. eth0 = Intel Gigabit).

Whenevery I try to use eth0, it complains that the hardware device isn't present. lspci certainly lists it, and iwconfig lists it too.

Any takers before I post a bug report?

Cheers

Duncan

[glanz]

I cannot get any wireless with any kernel above 2.6.13 for a good selection of D-Link and NetGear PCMCIA wlans, nor with internal wireless.. Had to revert to 2.6.13 and FC4...

...may have to dump Fedora for HD with 100% FreeBSD soon.
Everyone tells me "it's NOT the kernels", but if it isn't, I don't feel like rewriting a gazillion configuration files and recompiling the kernel a hundred times just to have the same operability on Frdora that I already have on FreeBSD.

[mit]

Hi folks,


Anyone else have any wireless experiences with FC5test2 yet?

The specifics are:

Thinkpad T40
eth0 - AIRONET Wireless Communications Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b
eth1 - Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile)



I am running Rawhide on my Thinkpad T30 with the wireless card, i had some problems to get it to work automatic on boot.

I count start it by running 'ifup eth0' as root in a terminal.

[tim@localhost src]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=00:02:8a:5c:88:15
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=<my essid>
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Managed
RATE=Auto



here is my ifcfg-eth0 file, you have to insert the hwaddr of your card & your essid to make it work.

test it by running 'ifup eth0' as root.

[drunkahol]

Thanks mit,

I thought I'd already replied to my original post. Somehow, the wireless device started being recognised on boot. Didn't change anything, so I don't know what the score was. I have the HWADDR and ESSID settings edited in by the GUI Network Settings screen. I'm now getting a connection.

The thing I would most like to fix now is the automatic switching between wired and wireless connection. If I plug in the RJ45 connection, I'd like the machine to figure that out and automatically use that. When the RJ45 is unplugged, the machine should automatically use the wireless connection.

This may be asking too much; I've only recently started using wireless access so am not up to speed on the finer details. Perhaps this is impossible, but it would be close to an ideal situation.

Cheers

Duncan