Re: centrino wireless problems on FC6

[ronald warsow <rwarsow online de>]

Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> I managed to install FC6 on my sony vaio, and I can't get the builtin
> wireless interface to work for the life of me. There's a sticker on the
> laptop that says Centrino Mobile Technology. 
>
> I had this working in FC4 and FC5 with the ipw2200 intel driver. I
> installed the latest versions from atrpms. Now I didn't have to do that,
> because it came with the kernel:
>   
...
> Has anybody succeeded with centrino wireless? I don't know if I'm doing
>   
yes.

> something wrong, or if it's a bug. I disabled WEP encryption in the router.
> The wireless interface does show up in the network configuration gui, but
> when I activate it, it says no cable (or link) present. 
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>   
are the devices correct ? means is your ethx your wireless-device ?
maybe a modprobe -rv ipw2200 and modprobe -sv ipw2200 correct this.

what does iwlist <your-wlan-device-here> scan show (then) ?

did you install the firmware ?

i use the firmware from livna !

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  ronald