From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Toshaan Bharvani Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:42 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] wireless laptop configuration
Steve Huff wrote:
On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Sorin@Gmail wrote:
I'm using a 3Com 3CRWE154G72 IIRC, which according to the hwconf's using
the
prism54 driver/firmware/whatever.
Would I maybe be better off reinstalling the whole shebang and have the wifi-card inserted from start in order for the centos installer to see it properly from the beginning?
before you do that, open a terminal, become root, and run /usr/sbin/kudzu (while the wireless card is installed). that's the program that does hardware detection; it may be able to sort out your issue.
-steve
or if kudzu for some reason doesn't cooperate (which is always on my system) become root run : /sbin/modprobe prism54 run : dmesg | tail and read whether it just says it has loaded the module (single line) or detected will output a wlanX statement and you are in business
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-)