centrino wireless problems on FC6

[Phil Meyer]

Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> I managed to install FC6 on my sony vaio, and I can't get the builtin
> wireless interface to work for the life of me. There's a sticker on the
> laptop that says Centrino Mobile Technology. 
>
> I had this working in FC4 and FC5 with the ipw2200 intel driver. I
> installed the latest versions from atrpms. Now I didn't have to do that,
> because it came with the kernel:
>
> [root at zeus ~]# rpm -qf /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko 
> kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
>
> Doing a grep after ipw2200 in /var/log/messages shows
>
> Oct 28 19:03:08 zeus kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kmprq
> Oct 28 19:03:08 zeus kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
> Oct 28 19:03:08 zeus kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
> Oct 28 19:03:08 zeus kernel: ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
> Oct 28 19:08:31 zeus kernel: ipw2200: Failed to send SCAN_ABORT: Command timed out.
> Oct 28 19:08:32 zeus kernel: ipw2200: Failed to send CARD_DISABLE: Command timed out.
>
> This is with the kernel driver. The first line says its version 1.1.2.
> At ipw2200 sourceforge page (and at atrpms) the latest version is 1.2.0. 
> I'm afraid that if I install the latest version I'll end up with broken
> kernel rpms, which is not very nice. 
>
> Has anybody succeeded with centrino wireless? I don't know if I'm doing
> something wrong, or if it's a bug. I disabled WEP encryption in the router.
> The wireless interface does show up in the network configuration gui, but
> when I activate it, it says no cable (or link) present. 
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>   
Did you enable the livna repo:

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm


 and do:

yum install ipw2200-firmware