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Old 07-01-2008
Wireless on RHEL 5

I have a Dell Latitude D820 loaded with RHEL 5. I am trying to get the internal wireless adapter to work on it. It recognizes that there is a wireless nic but it recognizes it as eth1 not wlan0. It's a Broadcom BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI. I was hoping I could be pointed in the right direction. THANKS!!!!
# 2  
Old 07-15-2008
does iwconfig return any "wireless extensions" for eth1. If so your just usue usual iwconfig eth1 essid XXXX followed by dhclient eth1.

The fact that the driver doesn't call it wlan0 is meaningless.
# 3  
Old 07-22-2008
Yes iwconfig shows that eth1 is a wireless card. When I try to activate it it gives me the following error:

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported
# 4  
Old 07-23-2008
Driver doesn't like the hardware it sounds like. Try to find an updated driver, or a newer kernel.

One other thing is make sure there isn't updated firmware for the device.
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