From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Toshaan Bharvani Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:42 PM To: centos at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] wireless laptop configuration Steve Huff wrote: > > On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Sorin at 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-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080819/500c0266/attachment-0005.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5118 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080819/500c0266/attachment-0005.bin>