configuring wireless

[cdelgado]

Hello all,
I am new in fedora, and I am trying to get the wireless to work but I cant.
I have an old Acer travelmate 2300 with the 1672WLMI Wireless LAN Card.

I go to network and it sees both conections, the wired and the wireless, however
I dont know how fedora sees the routers, or if something is wrong with the configuration.
I edited the wireless connection, all seems fine, but no detection.

I dont know how to start with this issue.

Any help will be great.

[d347hm4n]

Hi,

I had similar issue to yourself.

You need to name (SSID) of the network that you want to connect to, the encryption key and the encryption type.

Click on the network icon and then click search for hidden network.

Create a new connection and start entering the details.

When I did this, it popped up with the network I was trying to access. It's a little clumsy but that is how I did it. I don't think this is the official way, but there is no harm in trying.

[cdelgado]

Thank you very much. I will try. I just think like windows, and I am expecting the available networks to appear in my task bar, but I will try it.. That is all I need to engage to linux.. hehe. thank you.

Ohh, by the way: I am supposed to see the wireless conection icon as well as the wired one in the taskbar? I only see the wired one. In network I see both

[stoat]

Originally Posted by cdelgado

I just think like windows, and I am expecting the available networks to appear in my task bar, but I will try it.

Actually, that is exactly what does happen.

Hello cdelgado,

That is, if you have your card's wireless driver installed. Fedora comes with a variety of built-in or "nearly" built-in (needs firmware) drivers. So many wireless cards "just work". But many others need you to do something like install firmware. Some cards are not supported by Fedora meaning you have to acquire a Linux driver somewhere and install it. And some cards have no Linux driver at all (or not a good one), and those sometimes will work with a Windows driver and software that acts like a Linux adapter for it (aka ndiswrapper). Finally, some wireless cards never work in Linux. Generally, there is no need to do anything in the old Network Configuration utility (what you called "network", I think). I just install my card's firmware, and NetworkManager takes off.

So, what do you think your driver situation is? If you aren't sure, try identifying your wireless card's chipset...

/sbin/lspci -nn | grep -i -e network -e wireless
/sbin/lsusb

One of those may give something useful. Maybe not.

[cdelgado]

Hi, thank you very much for your reply.

I was unable to run the whole command. But I entered
/sbin/lspci -nn | grep -i -e network -e wireless

and got the following results:
improcomm ipn 2220 wireless lan adapter rev 01 17fe:2220

Thank you again.

[cdelgado]

Thanks to the info I got from the terminal, I found the following in forum:
Acer's wireless card is an Intel InProComm IPN2220. There are no native support for it in Linux, so you need to install ndiswrapper:

* Download and Install last ndiswrapper version
* Download NDIS driver for IPN2220
* Install it:

bash# cd /path/to/80211g.zip
bash# unzip 80211g.zip
bash# ndiswrapper -i /path/to/80211g/Winxp/neti2220.inf
bash# ndiswrapper -l


I will try it. thanks a lot

[stoat]

Originally Posted by cdelgado

improcomm ipn 2220 wireless lan adapter rev 01 17fe:2220

I think that is your problem right there. You need a driver. In another recent thread here, two forum experts tell the victim in that case that the chipset is known to work only with a Windows driver and ndiswrapper. Detailed instructions are given there, too.

http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1244033

P.S. If you decide to do this, use a driver that makes this card work in Windows XP or W2K or even Windows 98. But don't waste your time with Vista or Windows 7 drivers for it.

P.P.S.: I used to use ndiswrapper. For a long time. There's nothing wrong with it. I liked it. Then a native driver for my cards came on the scene. I recommend that you come back here for help and questions (bbfuller will see them here), or even if you don't need help and succeed on your own. Return to describe that, too. It's important for the record.

[cdelgado]

Hello guys, I've been trying to install ndiswrapper for about 3 hours now. I dont get it.
I download the file, run the commands, but cant find the app.

If someone knows about it, any help will be appreciated.


thanks all.

[cdelgado]

I think, the problem is that I dont know how to install progrmas in fedora. very bad.
I downloaded the ndiswrapper, but I cant get it to install.

[stoat]

Originally Posted by cdelgado

I downloaded the ndiswrapper, but I cant get it to install.

There are a couple of varieties so-to-speak of ndiswrapper. First, there is the classic source code version that has to be compiled. I used to compile ndiswrapper from source way back. Now there are binary versions that can be yum installed. I recommend the binary version from RPM Fusion which is a little group of three packages. So what did you download?

[cdelgado]

hi,
I downloaded the version 1.2.tar-2 from the main page

[stoat]

Originally Posted by cdelgado

I downloaded the version 1.2.tar-2 from the main page

Okay. That's a tarball and that means source code. I recommend that you put that aside for now and proceed with installing the binary version from RPM Fusion. Is that okay? And before you go any further, do you have the driver that makes this card work in Windows XP, W2K, or Windows 98 (forget about Vista and later versions)?

[cdelgado]

yes, I have the driver for xp. It is perfect. I need to learn how to do this. thanks a lot stoat

[stoat]

Originally Posted by cdelgado

yes, I have the driver for xp.

Okay. Good. You need the driver SYS file and INF file. Put those two files in a directory in your Fedora filesystem now. Say, a temp folder in your home folder. Just somewhere that you can find them easily later and preferably by themselves.

The next two preliminaries are: 1) Can you connect to the Internet by wire now? And 2) have you already installed the RPM Fusion Repositories?

[cdelgado]

I installed the rpmfusion from the fedora faq unofficial already. and i have internet wired connection.. ; )