Wireless ipw2200 in FC6

[Gregory P. Ennis]

On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 17:02 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 11:27 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > 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
> Install ipw2200-firmware rpm
> Stop network from running and run NewworkManager and
> NetworkManagerDispatcher using chkconfig. All at boot.
> 
> A program called nm-applet will run automatically when you log in and
> place its icon in the upper right side of the upper panel.
> Click on that icon and choose your wireless connection form the list.
> At that point you will be able to enter a WEP key if you want to and add
> a security passwd for accessing the access point.
> 
> If you have problems with this ask.
> 
> -- 
> Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>

Aaron,

Thanks for your advice!!!!  Finally got it working.

Greg