Re: Problem with wireless on FC5

I also had this problem: I booted my T42 today and the wireless didn't work. From what I see, there was some conflict between the ipw2200 entries that I set up manually way back when and some sort of automatic detection mechanism that must be new to FC5.  I got it to work like this --

I copied all the /etc/sysconfig/network/ directories to a backup location, just in case.  Then I used the GUI tool (system-config-network) to delete all references to my ipw2200.  Then I saved those settings.  Then I went to the Devices tab and clicked the New button on the tool bar and went through the wizard and it detected my ipw2200 and such and I was able to configure it.  (For some reason if you go to the Hardware tab and click New, you get a series of dialogs that don't list the ipw2200 driver, go figure...)  It wanted to call the wireless interface dev4960 so I let it -- it was called eth1 on my system before.  I have no idea why it picked the name dev4960.  But after all that, it now works.  I rebooted and it seems to continue to work after rebooting.

If I was going to debug this, I'd look into where the dev4960 name came from and see if maybe there's a race condition between programs competing to automatically configure wireless ethernet.

-wgm