Please suggest a fedora core 4 compatible wireless card

[Douglas Phillipson]

Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> 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
> 


All I had to do was "yum install ipw2200-firmware".  I wish this had 
been in a FAQ somewhere.  Why doesn't Fedora ship with the firmware if 
the driver is in the Kernel?

Doug P