Temlakos wrote:
>At the risk of sounding like a former president of the USA in one of his
>more inglorious moments--it depends on what the meaning of the phrase
>"out-of-the-box" is. /No/ wireless card, AFAIK, will work without /some/
>form of kernel module or driver wrapper to address it.
I have a HP Pavilion with Centrino. The wireless seems to be, according
to dmesg output, a Intel PRP Wireless 2200/2915. It works fine with
Knoppix (V 4.0.2) and when I install knoppix to the hard drive it works
fine. But with FC4, I get a ipw-2.2-boot.fw "load failed".
What I mean by "out of the box" is, I buy a card from CompUSA, install
it and fire up the Fedora network GUI, it finds the card and wireless is
up and runing. I'm a techie, but I've grown weary of finding kernel
module drivers for commonplace things like wireless. Then when I update
my machine it stops working and I have to do it all again. I was hoping
to just "Buy and go" this time. I actually bought the HP Pavilion
because I tested it with Knoppix in the store and the wireless stuff
"just worked". But I guess Fedora doesn't support it yet. I like
Fedora and I don't have a problem with it not working and I would like
to buy a PCMCIA card that "Just works" and is fully supported by Fedora,
if you know what I mean. I'm not compaining, I know there is alot of
hard work going on by OSS developers, I'm just wanting to find out what
absolutely works, with no muss no fuss so I don't have to mess with
drivers this time.
Here is the dmesg output if anyone is interested:
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.0
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:05.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 10 (level,
low) -> IRQ 10
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:05.0 disabled
ipw2200: probe of 0000:06:05.0 failed with error -5
Thanks
Doug P
