On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
This is a new Centos 5.1 install on a HP nc2400 (that use to run XP). Completely clean install; blew away the XP partitions...
After applying all the updates, and configuring for the rpmforge repo, I used yumex to install dkms and the dkms-ipw3945, ipw3945-firmware, and ipw3945d rpms.
lsmod|grep ipw shows:
ipw3945 180391 1 ieeee80211 33417 1 ipw3945
and dmesg)grep ipw shows:
well a bunch of lines about the card including one with the Radio Frequency Kill Swithc is On
Check to see if the physical switch is turned on. As long as the system thinks the Kill Switch is on it won't show up in Network Manager. [Having spent an hour debugging this a couple of months ago.] Basically it comes down to the first question of support: Is it plugged in? At the moment the computer does not think so.