Wireless ipw2200 in FC6
Gregory P. Ennis
PoMec at PoMec.Net
Mon Jan 29 05:04:27 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 17:02 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 11:27 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 09:55 -0500, Lane Brooks wrote:
> > > I have FC5 and FC6 installed on my laptop. It has an Intel 2915AB
> > > wireless card. I am completely up-to-date on both FC5 and FC6. The
> > > wireless works great on FC5. In FC6, however, it has problems. Most of
> > > the time it does not see all of the networks. If I restart the ipw2200
> > > driver with a rmmod/modprobe, sometimes that helps and it will find all
> > > the SSIDs. When I do get it to connect to the network I want, it is
> > > extremely flakey, drops the connection all the time, and has very poor
> > > bandwidth. Once again, this is not the case with FC5. FC5 works great.
> > > I use Network Manager to manage my wireless connections on both FC5
> > > and FC6.
> > >
> > > Are there any known significant differences between FC6 and FC5 in this
> > > regard? Any insight as to whether this is due to differences in the
> > > kernel, wireless tools, firmware, Network Manager, etc. would be useful.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Lane Brooks
> > >
> > Lane,
> >
> > I have an hp labtop with ipw2200 running FC5 and have never been able to
> > get the wireless to work. I would be interesting in knowing how you
> > were able to turn on ipw2200 for FC5
> >
> > Greg
> Install ipw2200-firmware rpm
> Stop network from running and run NewworkManager and
> NetworkManagerDispatcher using chkconfig. All at boot.
>
> A program called nm-applet will run automatically when you log in and
> place its icon in the upper right side of the upper panel.
> Click on that icon and choose your wireless connection form the list.
> At that point you will be able to enter a WEP key if you want to and add
> a security passwd for accessing the access point.
>
> If you have problems with this ask.
>
> --
> Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
Aaron,
Thanks for your advice!!!! Finally got it working.
Greg
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