Newbie question about installing wlan?

[tonytiger]

I have Fedora 2 core and I'm trying to install wlan to my Acer 2012 Centrino laptop. The wlan card is intel pro/wireless 2200bg(802.11b/g wlan). I have located driver for it at http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/. I have read the install instructions (can be found from the link) and done the lines

tar xzvf ipw2200-0.1.tgz
cd ipw2200-0.1

make

insmod ipw2200.ko (should load the driver)

I also typed lsmod and it writes a line which has this information:

module ipw2200
size 13840
used by 0

Everything seems fine, no error messages. But then what? What should I do to "activate" the wlan? I've tried to use mozilla, but it doesn't connect anywhere.

What should I do next? Thank you in advance.

Tony

Ps. There just isn't a way to explain this to me too simply =)

[decals74]

sup tonytiger,

well first off make sure u have the wireless-tools binaries installed. try `which iwconfig` and/or `rpm -q wireless-tools`. if either one returns a value then you're ready to continue. u might also want to try `dmesg` after loading the module to see if there are any err msgs in the kernel buffer.

out the box 'wireless-tools' was already installed on my fc2 laptop:
[root@mongo zz]# which iwconfig | xargs rpm -qf
wireless-tools-26-4

now to configure your wireless card. try `iwconfig`. the results should look something like this:

[root@bluto share]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b+ ESSID:"BLAHBLAH" Nickname:"acx100 v0.2.0pre8"
Mode:Auto Channel:1 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=176/255
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

`man iwconfig` should get u thru the rest. here's a quick sample of the syntax:

[root@bluto share]# iwconfig eth1 essid SKEETSKEET channel 2
[root@bluto share]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b+ ESSID:"SKEETSKEET" Nickname:"acx100 v0.2.0pre8"
Mode:Auto Channel:2 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=176/255
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

[tonytiger]

Ok. I tried to the point 'iwconfig'. Everything before that is ok and i have the same wireless-tools-26-4, but 'iwconfig' returns:
l0 no wireless extensions
sit0 no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
wlan0 no wireless extensions.

[SteveyDevey]

Originally Posted by tonytiger

Ok. I tried to the point 'iwconfig'. Everything before that is ok and i have the same wireless-tools-26-4, but 'iwconfig' returns:
l0 no wireless extensions
sit0 no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
wlan0 no wireless extensions.

I got the same result. I'm having a lot of trouble so far. I'm not sure if it's my fault, or if they're realy problems though.

I've got a linksys WMP11 card (pci) in my desktop. I can't seem to get it running.

When i did the iwconfig, i got these results:

lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Since 'wlan0' is missing, it leads me to believe that i may have missed a step. (Modprobe?)

[decals74]

tonytiger: i took a look at the sourceforge page for that driver and it doesn't seem to be a working driver quite yet. intel just started that project in may so it may be a little while before they have a functional driver for you. all its supposed to do right now is:

"This initial driver will only load, unload and report your hardware's PID/VID
via the proc or sysfs file systems. See CHANGES file for the respective paths
to these directory entries."

steveydevey: check this link:
http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/lin...mp11-linux.htm

[tonytiger]

Thank you decals and you're right about the driver's development state. I'll quess I just have to wait or try to find something else.

Tony

[SteveyDevey]

Originally Posted by decals74

tonytiger: i took a look at the sourceforge page for that driver and it doesn't seem to be a working driver quite yet. intel just started that project in may so it may be a little while before they have a functional driver for you. all its supposed to do right now is:

"This initial driver will only load, unload and report your hardware's PID/VID
via the proc or sysfs file systems. See CHANGES file for the respective paths
to these directory entries."

steveydevey: check this link:
http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/lin...mp11-linux.htm

Thanks for the link. I already had it, so I guess i'm just being a dimwit.