[NCLUG] Fedora 6 and the RaLink rt2500 wireless card

[Warren Turkal]

On Saturday 09 December 2006 00:56, David Braley wrote:
> When I boot into the system to a prompt (no X), I can log into the
> system, and run a command "ifup ra0" (ra0 is the interface for the
> wireless card) and everything works. I can use Lynx to access sites like
> Slashdot and google with no problem. Based on this, I feel I have gotten
> the driver (module?) loaded correctly on the system. The process
> involves downloading the latest source, compiling it, and installing it.
> A few system config files need to be edited by hand, but nothing that hard.

Why do you ifup it manually? Doesn't NetworkManger allow you to do that within 
your window manager? As such, bringing it up manually may be causing some 
problems with the NetworkManager/DBus system. That's my only idea.

wt
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Warren Turkal (w00t)