Please suggest a fedora core 4 compatible wireless card
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Fri Nov 25 20:29:04 UTC 2005
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> Temlakos wrote:
>
>> At the risk of sounding like a former president of the USA in one of his
>> more inglorious moments--it depends on what the meaning of the phrase
>> "out-of-the-box" is. /No/ wireless card, AFAIK, will work without /some/
>> form of kernel module or driver wrapper to address it.
>
>
> I have a HP Pavilion with Centrino. The wireless seems to be, according to
> dmesg output, a Intel PRP Wireless 2200/2915. It works fine with Knoppix (V
> 4.0.2) and when I install knoppix to the hard drive it works fine. But with
> FC4, I get a ipw-2.2-boot.fw "load failed".
The driver is in the kernel, but you need the firmware.
you can get it here:
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
> What I mean by "out of the box" is, I buy a card from CompUSA, install it and
> fire up the Fedora network GUI, it finds the card and wireless is up and
> runing. I'm a techie, but I've grown weary of finding kernel module drivers
> for commonplace things like wireless. Then when I update my machine it stops
> working and I have to do it all again. I was hoping to just "Buy and go"
> this time. I actually bought the HP Pavilion because I tested it with Knoppix
> in the store and the wireless stuff "just worked". But I guess Fedora
> doesn't support it yet. I like Fedora and I don't have a problem with it not
> working and I would like to buy a PCMCIA card that "Just works" and is fully
> supported by Fedora, if you know what I mean. I'm not compaining, I know
> there is alot of hard work going on by OSS developers, I'm just wanting to
> find out what absolutely works, with no muss no fuss so I don't have to mess
> with drivers this time.
>
> Here is the dmesg output if anyone is interested:
>
> ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.0
> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:05.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 10 (level, low) ->
> IRQ 10
> ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
> ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
> ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
> ipw2200: failed to register network device
> ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:05.0 disabled
> ipw2200: probe of 0000:06:05.0 failed with error -5
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug P
>
>
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