Can't Get Intel PRO/Wireless Card to work with FC5

[jim lawrence]

On 3/21/06, Lovell Mcilwain <lovell.mcilwain at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get my Intel Pro/Wireless card to work on
> FC5?  I checked the IPW2200 mailing list and they believe that I should
> have everything I need for this to work already installed on my machine
> yet I am not able to get this to work.
>
> Version of IPW2200 = git-1.0.4
> Version of Firmware = 2.4
>
> At the current state of my machine here are the steps that I have done.
> 1. installed liva rpm source
> 2. ran yum update ipw2200-firmware (to try and update the firmware)
>     result: Could not find update match for ipw2200-firmware, No Packages marked
> for Update/Obsoletion
> 3. ran dmesg
>     result: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Drive , git-1.0.8
>             Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
> 4. Ran iwconfig
>     Result: lo: No wireless extensions
>             eth0: No wireless extensions
>             sit0: No wireless extensions
> 5. Ran system-config-network
>     Under devices tab
>        1. Clicked new
>        2. Selected "Wireless Connection"
>     `  3. Click forward
>           Result: "Other Wireless Card" is the only selection in the device list.
>        4. Selected Ethernet Connection"
>        5. Click forward
>           Result: Intel Corporate PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter(eth1),
> Broadcom Corporate BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (eth0) and Other Ethernet Card are
> listed in the device menu
>
> Can anyone tell me what Im missing to be able to get this to work?
>
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means that the firmware wasn't loaded

check out
http://easylinux.info/wiki/Fedora_fc5#how_to_get_wireless_working_Intel_IPW2200_b.2Cg
http://easylinux.info/wiki/Fedora_fc5#NetworkManager_for_Gnome
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