[SOLVED] Another bloke with WiFi issues (FC6)

[brad.scalio]

Greetings

Running FC6 (non-xen)
Intel Pro Wireless 3945 NIC

Have card setup - loaded ipw3945 driver as well as wireless-utils package, iwconfig shows ESSID and access point, K-WiFi shows networks available, and connects to my NETGEAR network just fine..SELinux disabled, no firewall...

I can't get outside however, everything appears to work just fine, but I can' get browser the web or use web utilities....

I am pretty adept in linux but never setup a wireless connection before, I knew it seemed to be going too easy, but here is what I did:

[1] added entries for ifcfg-eth1
[2] added alias to ipw3945 for eth1 in modprobe.conf
[3] did a little startup in rc.local to start ipw3945 daemon
[4] loaded wireless utils

So brought back up the FC6 distro and used KWiFi (KDE Wireless Util) and it found all the networks I have available, I added a default network, it connected, showed the access point HWADDR, IP, and ifcpnfig (alias to ifconfig;iwconfig) showed ESSID and everything looked okay to me

But then I can't get onto the net using Firefox...or any other application ... SeLinux disabled, no firewall...I can't seem to get this going?? eth0 works just fine, internal network card, directly hooked up to the wireless router...so...

any ideas anyone? FC6, non-xen version

--- Running the laptop in RHEL4u2, I can get to the net just fine, it is just more FC6 distro...

Thanks in advance (been googling and forum'ing all weekend, haven't had luck with any advice given...)

thanks

[brad.scalio]

-- Ok well got it going -- I had to add my local ESSID to the ifcfg-eth1 file before it would register, with WEP enabled...so it is coming in just fine now -- ain't it great when you can troubleshoot and fix your own computer by editing just a file ;-)

Here are my files for those who have similar issues....after installing my driver, and the daemon for ipw3945, just edit ifcfg-eth1 and make an alias in modprobe.conf and there you go, simple and easy wireless access

[root@XPsucks /]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
# Intel Pro Wireless 3945AGB
DEVICE=eth1
TYPE=Wireless
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
MODE=Managed
RATE=Auto
ONBOOT=no
ESSID=NETGEAR

eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"NETGEAR" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:14:6C:6B:96:76
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:14 dBm
Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=90/100 Signal level=-41 dBm Noise level=-42 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1745 Missed beacon:0