Re: Fedora 10 wireless usb problem

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

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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