centrino wireless problems on FC6

[Chris Wright]

Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:08:39 +0200, ronald warsow wrote:
> 
>> 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:
>>>   
>> ...
>>> Has anybody succeeded with centrino wireless? I don't know if I'm doing
>>>   
>> yes.
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>   
>> are the devices correct ? means is your ethx your wireless-device ?
>> maybe a modprobe -rv ipw2200 and modprobe -sv ipw2200 correct this.
>>
>> what does iwlist <your-wlan-device-here> scan show (then) ?
>>
>> did you install the firmware ?
>>
>> i use the firmware from livna !
>>
>> -- 
>>
>>    ronald
>>
>>
> 
> It seems to be working now. The thing of it is, I just noticed in the
> network configuration gui the dhcp radio button is not sensitive (why???),
> so I cannot select dhcp. 

Mine was out until I rebooted the laptop.  It didn't seem to matter when 
I stop/started the driver/ etc.