IPW2200 wireless setup FC5

[owmyshoe]

I am new to linux, and I just installed FC5 on my notebook which I am currently on.

it is a compaq presario V2000 with an 80GB HDD, 1GB of ram, a 1.67GHZ AMD Turion 64
I am running the 32bit version of FC5, it sounded more stable and more supported

I also have a IPW2200 wireless card, which I am unable to use.

I have looked online many places, and I can follow along some websites until they don't mention where to un archive a certain RPM or something. As I have said before I am TOTALLY new to linux.

If someone could either find or write me a very detailed instruction set, what to download, what to type into the terminal, where to unarchive. It would be very much appreciated.

email me if you wish @ owmyshoe@gmail.com

[ms1234]

Install IPW2200 RPMS from atrpms.net, you'll most likely need the ieee8200 (or something like that) and the ipw2200 drivers and the kernel module. Make sure the kernel module (and the ieee) matches that of your kernel version.

[Julianus]

I have a Inspiron 9100 and it works out of the box.

if you do

dmesg ¦ grep ipw

you will see a message similar to

Loading of /lib/firmware/ipw-2.4-boot.fw for ipw2200 driver failed: No such file or directory

So, the driver ipw2200 is there (you don't need any additional rpms from ATRpms) but it doesn't find the firmware (of course: firmware= proprietary, which has no place in Fedora).

You can get the firmware for the version 2.4 of the driver at the ipw2000 Linux project

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php

Once you have the firmware, unzip the archive. You should find seven
files within it:

LICENSE A copy of the firmware license
ipw--boot.fw Boot strap image
ipw--bss_ucode.fw Used in BSS mode
ipw--bss.fw Used in BSS mode
ipw--ibss_ucode.fw Used in IBSS mode
ipw--ibss.fw Used in IBSS mode
ipw--sniffer.fw Used in Monitor mode
ipw--sniffer_ucode.fw Used in Monitor mode

Put all the files into the hotplug firmware directory, /lib/firmware.

Alternatively, get the rpm package of the firmware from Livna

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/5/i386/ipw2200-firmware-2.4-1.lvn5.noarch.rpm

which will do the work for you and put the firmware for various driver versions (2.2-2.4) in the firmware directory.

At this point I restart the computer (I know, I could activate the module ...)

Go into Network Devices and set up a New Wireless link: the ipw2200 shoud be available.

[Julianus]

More detailed instructions - what to download, what to type into the terminal, where to unarchive - here:

Intel Wireless Pro 2200BG and FC5 (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=100781)

[brandor]

If someone could either find or write me a very detailed instruction set, what to download, what to type into the terminal, where to unarchive. It would be very much appreciated.

Have you tried searching yourself? This week alone I've seen a handful of IPW2200 posts by just surfing these forums.

Install IPW2200 RPMS from atrpms.net,

atrpms repo replaces fedora base files and should not be used. Using bad repos is the best way to hose your system fast.