Problems getting my wireless card to work

[Stelian Iancu]

Hi all,

I have just installed FC5 Test2 on my laptop (HP Pavilion zt3010us) 
which has a Intel Pro wireless card (centrino).

After a lot of reading on the net, I've discovered that, although the 
driver (ipw2100) is present in the kernel, I don't have the firmware for 
this card. So I have downloaded the firmware rpm 
(ipw2100-firmware-1.3-2.noarch.rpm from freshrpms.net) and installed it. 
Then I've setup manually the IP address of the interface (to 
192.168.2.10, the wireless router and gateway is 192.168.2.1) and 
rebooted. Now the problem is that Fedora doesn't start anymore. It gets 
stuck trying to start sendmail. I've tried the interactive startup and 
skipped sendmail, but then the whole thing is really slow, it takes ages 
until I get to the login screen. Even then, ifconfig shows me correctly 
eth1 with the correct address, route shows me that 192.168.2.1 is the 
gateway (although it takes quite a while until I see the gateway line) 
and in /etc/resolv.conf I have the correct DNS server. But pinging 
192.168.2.1 doesn't work, I get Destination host unreachable.

So, any ideas how can I proceed further? FC5 seems very promising, and I 
must say I like a lot what I've seen so far, but this issue is a 
showstopper for me (my router is in another room and I don't want to 
have wires all over the house).

Many thanks!

With regards,
Stelian Iancu
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