FC6 Wireless on Thinkpad T43
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sun Nov 12 01:23:04 UTC 2006
I got my hands on a T43 Thinkpad. I loaded up FC6, and applied all
updates, as of now (FC6 is only a few weeks old, and it's already got 100+
updated packages…)
I'm following Bill Moss's page:
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml
I got Livna plugged in, and installed the ipw2200-firmware package. After a
reboot, I see all the right messages in syslog, and the firmware gets
loaded, and the ipw2200 kernel modules seems to be very happy.
According to Bill Moss's page, I should be able to set various wireless
parameters through the Network manager, simply by clicking "Edit" on the
wireless network device. However, when I do that, I get the identical "Edit
properties" screen that one gets for a wired Ethernet network interface.
Now, in the Network manager, the "Hardware" tab shows the the eth0 interface
is the T-43's built-in Broadcom 10/100 Ethernet card, and eth1 is the "Intel
Corporation PRO/Wireless" device. eth0's type reads "ethernet", and eth1's
type reads "wireless".
That's the story in the Network manager's "Hardware" tab. But, back in the
"Devices" tab, both eth0 and eth1's type is shown as "Ethernet", and trying
to edit eth1's properties prompts me for the usual ethernet settings, not
wireless settings.
I'm think that Anaconda incorrectly set up both interfaces, eth0 and eth1,
as Ethernet devices, and the Network manager is confused. It correctly
shows eth1 as a wireless interface in the "Hardware" tab, based on
whatever data it uses for the "Hardware" tab. I'm guessing that it uses
the stuff in /etc/sysconfig to set up the "Devices" tab, and Anaconda
incorrectly set both eth0's and eth1's types to "ethernet" in
/etc/sysconfig.
I haven't looked at the contents of /etc/sysconfig. Before I begin screwing
around and trying to figure out how what I need to do there to get the
Network manager to recognize eth1 as a Wireless device, can anyone confirm
my suspicions, please. Secondly, is there a general FC-oriented high-level
wireless tutorial; that talks about high level configuration details -- i.e.
how to set things up so that FC connects to public access points
automatically, etc…
P.S. irwconfig happily detects wireless extensions on eth1, and I interpret
its output as basically telling me the card is simply unconfigured. So, I
think that I'm good kernel-wise, and it's just the Network manager that
needs a mild kick in the pants.
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