WiFi card detected as Ethernet

Leon Stringer leon.stringer at ntlworld.com
Sun Feb 26 15:55:15 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 09:48 -0600, Caerie Houchins wrote:
> I have the intel card wireless card too.  It will show up as a wired
> ethernet card untill you install the ipw2100 firmware.  Some repos
> have the RPM but its probably legally questionable and not included in
> the core distro.  Ran accross this on my Dell 6000 laptop. 

Yes that was the problem. I downloaded the firmware from
http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firmware.php (v0.55-current firmware) and
copied ipw2100-1.3.fw into /lib/firmware.

Presumably this *is* a legal issue but shouldn't it be in the release
notes?




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