Wireless ipw2200 in FC6
Gregory P. Ennis
PoMec at PoMec.Net
Sun Jan 28 17:27:57 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 09:55 -0500, Lane Brooks wrote:
> I have FC5 and FC6 installed on my laptop. It has an Intel 2915AB
> wireless card. I am completely up-to-date on both FC5 and FC6. The
> wireless works great on FC5. In FC6, however, it has problems. Most of
> the time it does not see all of the networks. If I restart the ipw2200
> driver with a rmmod/modprobe, sometimes that helps and it will find all
> the SSIDs. When I do get it to connect to the network I want, it is
> extremely flakey, drops the connection all the time, and has very poor
> bandwidth. Once again, this is not the case with FC5. FC5 works great.
> I use Network Manager to manage my wireless connections on both FC5
> and FC6.
>
> Are there any known significant differences between FC6 and FC5 in this
> regard? Any insight as to whether this is due to differences in the
> kernel, wireless tools, firmware, Network Manager, etc. would be useful.
>
> Thanks,
> Lane Brooks
>
Lane,
I have an hp labtop with ipw2200 running FC5 and have never been able to
get the wireless to work. I would be interesting in knowing how you
were able to turn on ipw2200 for FC5
Greg
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