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Re: Fedora 10 wireless usb problem



I am not convinced of the completeness of the zd1211 driver, as I h9e
card based on that chip that has never worked for me under linux.
works great under windows.  I had an atheros based card I switched to
instead after trying several different live cds and a couple of normal
distros I had at my disposal.

On 12/6/08, Craig Ziegel <mwtransport@wisperhome.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:58:12 -0600
> "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 16:42 -0600, Craig Ziegel wrote:
>> > I installed fedora 10 on childs PC. the usb wireless card worked
>> > fine
>> > > on the fresh install but after the updates on the pc with the usb
>> > > card it does not work on restart it does not even show up in NM
>> > > only eth0 can someone tell me how to fix this. please
>> >
>> > When I ifup wlan0
>> > Determining IP information for wlan0...Nothing to flush.
>> > Failed
>> >
>> > [michael@localhost ~]$ iwconfig
>> > lo no wireless extensions.
>> >
>> > eth0 no wireless extensions.
>> >
>> > wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
>> >
>> > wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
>> > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
>> > Tx-Power=27 dBm
>> > Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
>> > Power Management:off
>> > Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
>> > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
>> > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>> >
>> > Component: system-config-network
>> > Version: 1.5.93
>> > Summary: TB334155f4 ConfShellVar.py:66:__setitem__:TypeError:
>> > expected string or buffer
>> >
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> > File
>> > "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py",
>> > line 829, in on_applyButton_clicked self.save() File
>> > "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py",
>> > line 411, in save self.saveDevices() File
>> > "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py",
>> > line 431, in saveDevices devicelist.save() File
>> > "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCDeviceList.py", line
>> > 238, in save dev.save() File
>> > "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/plugins/NCPluginDevWireless.py",
>> > line 48, in save super(DevWireless, self).save() File
>> > "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCDevice.py", line
>> > 413, in save conf[confkey] = getattr(self, selfkey) File
>> > "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/conf/ConfShellVar.py",
>> > line 66, in __setitem__ if self.quotereg.search(value): TypeError:
>> > expected string or buffer
>> >
>> > Local variables in innermost frame:
>> > varname: MTU
>> > self: <netconfpkg.NCDevice.ConfDevice instance at 0x7fe8eea09e18>
>> > place: 18
>> > value: 1500
>> > missing: 1
>> > When I check MTU 1500 this is the error log
>>
>> Craig,
>>
>> What version of NetworkManager are you running? A
>> NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.12.svn4326.FC10 update was released on Nov 25.
>>
>> --Doc
>>
>>
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> I know it did a network manager update when I update after install.
> I did try
> /sbin/lsmod | grep zd1211
> that did nothing NM is still not seeing wireless
>
> --
> Craig Ziegel
> MW Transport Systems
> 773-418-8713
> mwtransport@wisperhome.com
>
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