wireless device

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 20:15, Yuandan Zhang wrote:

> my device is Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG, it looks like having a 
> driver ipw2200 on /dev/eth1. However, whenI try to activate this device 
> (via system-config-network), it shows,
> interface 'eth1' not found., thus, no way to connect the wireless.

You also need to make sure you have the firmware loaded on your system. 
I believe there is an RPM available or you can go to the sourceforge
site and get the firmware from there as well as the latest driver.

I finally gave up trying to get the 2200BG working on a Toshiba Tecra
M2.  Went out and bought a Netgear WG511 version 2 adapter.  Loaded
driverloader and selected the drivers from the CD.  Was up and running
in just a few minutes.  This after wasting many many hours trying to get
the 2200BG to work reliably.  

I did get the 2200BG to work for awhile using Networkmanager, however
that did not seem run consistently and it finally just stopped working
entirely.  I never did like the fact that I could not get the wireless
working on the 2200BG through the normal network options.  The WG511
version 2 is running using the normal network options without
Networkmanager.  At some point I may try Networkmanager again but for
now it ain't broke....

Now I just need to allocate time to find out if it was an Xorg package
update that messed up the font display on that laptop....


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