On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
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".
The driver is in the kernel, but you need the firmware.
you can get it here:
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
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
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