Wireless switch on HP DV1000 with ipw2200 card: how activate wireless switch

[Phil Meyer]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> I did a clean install of F9 on an HP dv1000 laptop.  IT was smooth,
> mostly, and the wire network is good.  The wireless is giving me some
> trouble.  lspci shows the intel ipw2200, which has worked on other
> systems I've administered.
>
> If I run "/sbin/iwlist scan"
> it shows a lot of wireless networks.
>
> Doesn't that mean the wireless networking is turned on?
>
> But network manager doesn't see any wireless networks.  It doesn't try
> to join any.
>
> I'm resisting old temptation to run system-config-network, you know what I mean?
>
> The owner points out a wireless network toggle button, and clicking on
> it has no effect.  Some older ubuntu newsgroup posts say the LED is
> off by default, and there's a thing to turn it on.  But on our Dell
> laptops with the same network card, no such magic is needed.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
>   

Did you:

# yum install ipw2200-firmware

# rmmod ipw2200
# modprobe ipw2200

Now check the icon.

Good Luck!