New to Fedora, struggling with wireless

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:57:26PM -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> On Thursday 23 November 2006 18:58, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Erik Hemdal wrote:
> > >> On 23/11/06, Cecilia Lunardini <cecilialunardini at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >>> So, my question is: is there a step by step, guide on how to
> > >>> set up the wireless?  It has to be very detailed, because I am
> > >>> an absolute beginner and even the most obvious aspects of
> > >>> Linux are not obvious to me.
> > >> Try this guide (for Fedora Core 6) and see if you can follow it
> > >> through (I think the only missing element from a Fedora
> > >> installation to get Centrino wireless working is the Intel
> > >> firmware that needs to be downloaded):
> > >>
> > >> http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml
> > >>
> > > The Clemson instructions are very good and step by step.  Take a
> > > few minutes to read over all of it to get an idea of what you're
> > > in for, because it's very detailed.  There are several steps you
> > > need to do before you can simply check for the detection of the
> > > card.

> This worked for me.
> 
> 1) download the v3.0-9 firmware from 
> http://atrpms.net/dist/common/ipw2200-firmware/
> 
> 2) download the driver (ipw2200-1.2.0-45.fc6.at.i386.rpm ) and the appropriate 
> kernel module (such as 
> ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6-1.2.0-45.fc6.at.i686.rpm  ) from here:
> http://atrpms.net/dist/fc6/ipw2200/
> 
> 3) run "yum install ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5-1.2.15-14.fc5.at" as root 
> to satisfy dependancies before you install the rpm's (or try and install the 
> RMP's and yum the module it gripes about)
> 
> 4) install the rpm's you downloaded in steps 1 & 2

Hi,

steps 1)-4) can be simply abbreviated with

yum install ipw2200

if you have ATrpms activated as a repo.

> 5) reboot, then go to Administration --> network (or the gnome equivelant) and 
> create a new wireless device. Your ipw2200 centrino device should now show 
> up. 

> Hope this helps...
> 

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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