On Monday 22 May 2006 15:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've had Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG-based 802.11g wlan working for quite > a while on 2.6.15 and now 2.6.16 quite nicely. I'm running debian on a > Sony Vaio laptop, and here's what I did to get things working. I'm not > familiar with Fedora, but hopefully something in here might be helpful > for you. > > **** Device: output of lspci -v: > natasha:/lib/modules# ls -las /lib/firmware/0000:06:0b.0 Network > controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05) > Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2753 > > **** Driver version I'm using: 1.0.8 > The info at > http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/index.php > and > http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php > allows you to download the correct version of firmware for the driver > you're using. > For 2.6.15 and 2.6.16, the included drivers will need to use version 2.4 > of the firmware.
Sony Viao is the worst laptop I've ever played with, bar none, BUT the centrino = intel lan + hardware switch (as opposed to soft RF on switches) means that the lan works nicely. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
