Sick of Inte/PRO Wireless IPW2200 BG hardware

[mha]

Hi,
IPW2200 BG was running fine with FC4. However, when I made a fresh install for FC5, wireless didn't work. I've been suffering to make it work, but without success. Can someone help ?

Computer: Dell Inspiron 6000
Wifi: Inte/PRO Wireless IPW2200 BG

I guess I had everything set "persumably" correctly, but cannot get the device connected.

Best regards,
mha

[daverj]

Have you installed the ipw2200 firmware files? They are not installed by default. If you haven't, then:

1) setup the freshrpm repo file
2) yum install ipw2200

That should do it.

Dave

[designbydave]

Originally Posted by daverj

Have you installed the ipw2200 firmware files? They are not installed by default. If you haven't, then:

1) setup the freshrpm repo file
2) yum install ipw2200

That should do it.

Dave

I had to do this in FC5 to get mine to work.

[mha]

I did that a while ago (from livna) and here is the proof:
[hasan@localhost ~]$ rpm -q ipw2200-firmware
ipw2200-firmware-2.4-1.lvn5

and I can scan for network:
[root@localhost ~]# iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:04:E2:E8:F6:02
ESSID:"SMC"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:1
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 22 24 36 48 54
Quality=56/100 Signal level=-67 dBm
Extra: Last beacon: 164ms ago

sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

Then what ?

regards, mha

[SponjWorthy]

Apparently there was a problem with the Kernel that came on the FC5 distro. I upgraded to 2.6.16-1.2088 so I could actually compile the tools correctly. But now I'm lost. NetworkManager shows my hardware but none of the other wireless tools seem to see that eth1 is a wireless card or how to interact with it. I'm a little new to linux on a laptop... Wired network works great... It just defeats the purpose of the wireless network. Linux goodness on my patio while BBQing. Since we all have the same laptop did you get the ATI X300 card? Have you got the fglrx drivers to work under the 2.6.16-1.2088 kernel? The closest I can find is 2.6.16-1.2080 could I just force the driver install?


Dell Inspiron 6000
1GB RAM
ATI X300
Intell Wireless Pro BG 2200

[Josip]

I have Compaq nx6110 with ipw2200 on FC5, i install ipw2200 firmware, what now?

[Iron_Mike]

Once you installed the firmware in the /lib/firmware directory, did you happen to check: system -->administration -->network and look at the wireless connectin to see if the wireless card was there. You need to set up the connection

[Firewing1]

@kernel 2088 -- That's a development kernel. I'd remove it and use the updated one:

rpm -q kernel
rpm -e [ ALL kernels after 2080 ]
yum install kernel kernel-devel
yum update kernel kernel-devel

That should get you going on the official 2080 kernel, and Livna will have your drivers to make module installation easy.
I'd personally uninstall it and use the official one, 2080 that still fixes the Fedora problem.
(BTW, If you follow one of mine or any similar ones that puts a development kernel repo into /etc/yum.repos.d, I'd remove the file as an update has corrected the issue and you don't wanna continue running development kernels! I think it's a "davej.repo" or "kernels.repo" that you can remove.)
Firewing1

[j_baer]

Originally Posted by Iron_Mike

Once you installed the firmware in the /lib/firmware directory, did you happen to check: system -->administration -->network and look at the wireless connectin to see if the wireless card was there. You need to set up the connection

I have a Dell Latitude D610 and I believe it uses the same card. I installed the drivers and then went to Network Administration. Not present, so I went to add new device, wireless, and all I get is other card. When I click the dropdown it looks like I get a list of standard lan cards of which the intel card is not listed. I checked the "/lib/firmware" directory and it looks like the driver is there.

Did I miss something?

Thanks ...

[Iron_Mike]

Originally Posted by j_baer

I have a Dell Latitude D610 and I believe it uses the same card. I installed the drivers and then went to Network Administration. Not present, so I went to add new device, wireless, and all I get is other card. When I click the dropdown it looks like I get a list of standard lan cards of which the intel card is not listed. I checked the "/lib/firmware" directory and it looks like the driver is there.

Did I miss something?

Thanks ...

Reboot the computer, then go to the /var/log directory and open the dmesg file, and see if the drivers and the firmware are loading or if there are any error pertaining to the wireless card