FC4 T2 and Dell M70

[Jamie Bohr]

Thank for giving me some pointers. The card still did not work after 
installing the firmware RPM however after doing some more searching I found 
a page that suggested I change some serrtings in the BIOS. After changing 
the BIOS setting for the wireless card from "Application / Fn-F2" to just 
"Application" every thing fell into place. Thank you for all your help with 
this.

Many thanks,
Jamie Bohr

On 4/25/05, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 10:18 -0600, Jamie Bohr wrote:
> > Has any one had luck installing Fedora (3 or 4) on a Dell M70 laptop?
> > I just got one and wiped out Windows first thing. I was quite
> > disappointed to learn sound and wireless were not supported in FC4.
> > The audio is AC97 and the wireless is a Intel PRO/Wireless 2915 a/b/g.
> > I have searched the Internet and found where other users were
> 
> > I am still searching the Internet to get the sound working. The
> > wireless is very weird though. The system does not see the built in
> > wireless card at all. When I insert my old Xircom wireless card the
> > builtin Intel (Pro/Wireless 2915) shows up - what's up with that? My
> > Xircom is not even listed. I down loaded the drivers from Intel and
> > installed as indicated, still not luck.
> 
> This wireless card should be supported, its driven by the "ipw2200"
> driver. You need firmware however, which is not able to be distributed
> with Fedora Core. See:
> 
> http://atrpms.net/dist/common/ipw2200-firmware/
> Install the top RPM, the 2.2-5 one.
> 
> http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=4
> OR, download the file here and place it in /lib/firmware
> 
> Dan
> 
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/attachments/20050426/e337b100/attachment.html