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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> centos-bounces@centos.org
[mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Toshaan Bharvani<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:24 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> centos@centos.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CentOS] wireless laptop configuration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US
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> On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Sorin@Gmail wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I'm using a 3Com 3CRWE154G72 IIRC, which according to the hwconf's
using the <br>
>> prism54 driver/firmware/whatever.<br>
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>>
<br>
>> Would I maybe be better off reinstalling the whole shebang and have
the<br>
>> wifi-card inserted from start in order for the centos installer to <br>
>> see it<br>
>> properly from the beginning?<br>
><br>
><br>
> before you do that, open a terminal, become root, and run <br>
> /usr/sbin/kudzu (while the wireless card is installed). that's the <br>
> program that does hardware detection; it may be able to sort out your <br>
> issue.<br>
><br>
> -steve<br>
><br>
or if kudzu for some reason doesn't cooperate (which is always on my system)<br>
become root<br>
run : /sbin/modprobe prism54<br>
run : dmesg | tail<br>
and read whether it just says it has loaded the module (single line) or <br>
detected will output a wlanX statement and you are in business<br>
<br>
<br>
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:21.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Isn’t it implied that since ”prism54” is listed in
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf for the wifi-card that the module has been loaded
already? Or is this some of the magical stuff that sometimes doesn’t happen for
whatever reason? 8-)</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>/etc/sysconfig/hwconf is the file kudzu
creates when of all detected hardware at startup and it related this hardware
with drivers in the kernel<br>
but certain drivers are modules in the kernel, wich need to be loaded manually
or later when the system is already running<br>
this can be done by method 1 explained here above or adding them in
/etc/modprobe.conf which makes it load the modules at startup<br>
you will need to add the line (if it is not yet there) :<br>
alias wlan0 prism54<br>
you can check whether the module is loaded with : /sbin/lsmod | grep prism54<span
style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Excellent explanation. Thx.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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