heck i can't get the intel wireless working on fc6 myself :P it detects and authenticates but somehow nothing works (no connectivity)
i've resorted to using windows or just using the wired ethernet port on my linksys wrt54-g (non-L) at home. i have a partial litany of my woes at http://orlygoingthirty.blogspot.com setting up wireless on fc6 at least is un-necessarily headachy. no wonder linux isn't getting any traction on the desktop... On 3/4/07, Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For program development in C/C++/Java, Ubuntu 6.06 is not the ideal laptop distro. I just could not figure out the proper mix of packages to install, and there is no "development" super package selection. So I decided to install (again) FC6 on my laptop. As expected there is no support for ipw2200, and so wireless networking failed. So I downloaded and built ieee80211-1.2.16 and ipw2200-1.2.1 and installed these as modules. I also downloaded the Intel firmware ipw2200-fw-3.0 and installed in /etc/firmware and also in /lib/firmware, since I am not sure in which directory to install. I did a "modprobe ipw2200" and then run the System->Administration->Network utility. Wireless networking worked like magic! Then came the big disappointment: after rebooting, wireless networking would not work again. The /etc/init.d/network script fails. I suspect that /etc/init.d/network is called before the ipw2200 driver could be loaded. So I did the unforgiveable, and added the following lines to the beginning of /etc/init.d/network if [ "$(lsmod | grep ipw2200)" = "" ]; then modprobe ipw2200 fi This makes sure that the ipw2200 driver is loaded before "ifconfig eth1" is performed. Is there a better way of doing this? Thanks. P~Manalastas _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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