Sorin Srbu wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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-)
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/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
but certain drivers are modules in the kernel, wich need to be loaded
manually or later when the system is already running
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
you will need to add the line (if it is not yet there) :
alias wlan0 prism54
you can check whether the module is loaded with : /sbin/lsmod | grep
prism54
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