Problems with ipw2200 wireless in FC6

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:

>>
>> First I assume you installed the  ipw2200-firmware rpm. You are not
>> trying to run network and NetworkManager at the same time. That produced
>> bad karma. I would suggest you stop network and just run NetworkManager
>> and NetworkDispatcher in the /etc/init.d directory.
>
> They were all running, I had just turned on NetWorkManager without turning off
> network, didn't realize they shouldn't be run at the same time. However, even
> so, sometimes the ipw2200 card is still shown as __tmp1804289383, with the
> same behavior described in the previous e-mail. Is there any thing else I
> should try?
>
>> Then configure your wireless using the nm-applet which should start up
>> automatically at boot. An icon will appear in the right side of the
>> upper panel. Right click on it to choose your access point and configure
>> it. You should unconfigure your wireless setup if you used s-c-n or
>> iwconfig to configure it.
>
> Yes, I use the knetworkmanager, which is the same. No problem in connecting to
> wireless networks when the card is correctly shown as eth1, but it halts for
> a while when getting the IP address from DHCP if the NIC is shown as
> __tmp1804289383 and then it stays off-line.

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update initscripts.  Then reboot.

You should not need the /etc/iftab file I described before.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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