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I'm a relative newbie to linux so maybe I'm missing something here.
I installed the Madwifi rpms, and then ran the internet configuration wizard. The wireless card was detected and activated successfully and I got on line. That was the first time. Since then, whenever i reboot I have no internet access. What do I need to do to insure that the wireless card is used as the default adaptor?

Thanks,

Hi alpuzz can you please tell me how i can install Madwifi rpms
I have t43 and i installed fedora 4 and i want my wireless to be working
Thanks in advance

Check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1. See if the config looks sane. At least on my T30, the wireless adapter gets mapped as eth1 and the regular 10/100 card is mapped to eth0.

Here's mine for a quick reference:
DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Wireless
ESSID=homeupstairs

From the command line, issue as root /sbin/ifup eth1. This should call dhclient and attempt to give you an IP address from your WAP. To see what's happening while you do this, issue as root to examine the syslog:
tail -f /var/log/messages

For more help if this doesn't quite work, post output from /sbin/lsmod and /bin/dmesg to see what happens during bootup.

I tend to shy away from GUI based configuration tools in Linux as most suck and don't work quite right.

If you don't want to edit the config files then system-config-network works quite well on FC4.