Re: Fedora 10 wireless usb problem

[Craig Ziegel <mwtransport@wisperhome.com>]

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

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Craig Ziegel
MW Transport Systems
773-418-8713
mwtransport@wisperhome.com

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