lwlan-user] Can't seem to get wlan0 recognized on Fedora Core 4

>   I've searched a long time on the i'net and seen others post this 
> problem, but without solution.
> 
> I have:
>      Fedora Core 4 (with the kernel 2.6.11 that it comes with)
>      Ashton Wireless USB network adaptor
> 
> I downloaded linux-wlan stuff and followed all the directions very 
> carefully. My client has a fixed IP of 192.168.0.101.
> 
> The problem is that although the prism2_usb is recognized as a device
> in 
> the logs, none of the commands recognize wlan0 as a network interface.
> 
> Below are the relevant file contents. Any help appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> Mark
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Hi Mark,

are you seeing any messages in the log about downloading the firmware?
Something like :-
	kernel: Writing 4096 bytes to ram @0x7e2ffe
	kernel: Writing 4096 bytes to ram @0x7e3ffe
	....
	kernel: Writing xxxx bytes to ram @0xnnnnnn

followed by the ident messages
	kernel: ident nic h/w: id= 
	kernel: ident pri f/w: id=
	kernel: ident sta f/w: id= 

You might try running without the wlan0 alias in modprobes.conf, and
without rc.local.

I'm running on FC4 and am just letting the usb hotplug configure the
device, and it all works OK for me. even dhcp works. I found that the
fedora networking with the alias started too early on boot and confused
the card.

HTH
Richard