Can't Get Intel PRO/Wireless Card to work with FC5
jim lawrence
fedorajim at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 20:31:02 UTC 2006
On 3/21/06, Lovell Mcilwain <lovell.mcilwain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> jim lawrence wrote:
> 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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>
> According to ipw2200.sourceforge.net this issue can be caused by a timeout
> so I set my firmware time out to 100 as the specified and this problem still
> exists. They state the only other reason for this is that the firmware can
> be in the wrong location. If its not supposed to be in /lib/firmware and
> the directory /usr/lib/hotplug/* is non existent, what other place can I put
> these?
>
>
I looked into my /lib/firmware dir and here is what i got
ipw2200-bss.fw
ipw-2.4-boot.fw
ipw-2.4-ibss_ucode.fw
ipw2200-ibss.fw
ipw-2.4-bss.fw
ipw-2.4-sniffer.fw
ipw2200-LICENSE.txt
ipw-2.4-bss_ucode.fw
pw-2.4-sniffer_ucode.fw
ipw2200-sniffer.fw
ipw-2.4-ibss.fw
LICENSE.ipw2200-fw
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