<posted & mailed> Scot L. Harris wrote: > Been fighting this problem off and on for the past month or two. > > FC3 system running 770 kernel on a Tecra M2 laptop with the 2200BG > centrino wireless chip set. > > Loaded the firware package and have been able to get the system to > recognize the wireless hardware. Configuration of the wireless seems to > work, can set the essid and wep key as well as the channel info. Heh, I think we have very similar laptops (we also share the problem of not being able to turn on dma mode for our CD/DVD drive). Anyways, I don't know if this is the same as what you are experiencing, but I had problems with the IPW2200 drivers. Here's what I found out and my simple solution to my problems... Stock FC3 kernel doesn't come with ipw2200 modules. I upgraded to latest kernel (770 I think?) via yum. That kernel _does_ come with ipw2200 modules, but they wouldn't work with the firmware from freshrpms nor from the ipw2200.sourceforge.net site. So I deleted all the modules, installed ipw2200 from scratch and installed the firmware from the sourceforge site into /lib/firmware/. Then all was well for me. The following is taken from http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml: --- Beginning with the FC3 update kernel 2.6.9-1.724, the ieee80211, ipw2100, and ipw2200 modules are included. If you remove the kernel installation, # cd /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.741_FC3/kernel/drivers/net/wireless # rm -rf ieee80211 ipw2100 ipw2200 you can install [ipw2200 from source]. --- Hope that helps.
