On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Dick Roark
<droark.sg@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Harish Pillay
<harish.pillay@gmail.com> wrote:
> It all started with Puppy Linux 5.2. I setup a LiveCD and jumped in to get
> familiar with it. I had some trouble with connectivity. I eventually got
> around to trying my linksys Wireless-G dongle. This showed some promise
> although I was unable to find the correct Puppy driver for the dongle and
> eventually removed the Wireless-G and shelved that project. Later on, I
> tried to log on with Fedora and found that NetworkManager was now unusable.
> Okay, after fiddling around with it for a while, I did a complete reinstall
> of Fedora (including reformatting the disk) and low-and-behold
> NetworkManager still doesn't work. I would have thought the Fedora reinstall
> would have installed the correct driver but apparently it didn't. I am able
> to send this because I have plugged the Wireless-G back in. (aargh!) Has
> anyone ever seen this sort of thing?
yum reinstall NetworkManager*
and it will replace the existing NetworkManager.
I actually don't understand the issue you are facing. Your machine has
some OS installed in the harddisk or are you working entirely off of a
liveCD?
Harish
Actually, I think it's a hardware problem with the Dlink PCI wireless card. Reinstalling NetworkManager was the first thing I tried. I've done two cold reinstalls with the same results. The Puppy Linux is a live CD. By now, there are no remaining traces on the Puppy Linux. I'm going to remove the Dlink card and have a look at it. Once in a blue moon, even reseating a card makes a difference. I don't believe it's a Fedora problem because on both the reinstalls the Wireless-G USB dongle works just fine. To me, it's just gotta be a hardware problem. I expect to fix it today. Will keep you updated.
The problem did turn out to be the wireless PCI card. Took it out, cleaned it, put some Pro-Gold on the contacts, reinstalled it and we're off to the races.