On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 09:55 -0500, Lane Brooks wrote: > I have FC5 and FC6 installed on my laptop. It has an Intel 2915AB > wireless card. I am completely up-to-date on both FC5 and FC6. The > wireless works great on FC5. In FC6, however, it has problems. Most of > the time it does not see all of the networks. If I restart the ipw2200 > driver with a rmmod/modprobe, sometimes that helps and it will find all > the SSIDs. When I do get it to connect to the network I want, it is > extremely flakey, drops the connection all the time, and has very poor > bandwidth. Once again, this is not the case with FC5. FC5 works great. > I use Network Manager to manage my wireless connections on both FC5 > and FC6. > > Are there any known significant differences between FC6 and FC5 in this > regard? Any insight as to whether this is due to differences in the > kernel, wireless tools, firmware, Network Manager, etc. would be useful. > > Thanks, > Lane Brooks > Lane, I have an hp labtop with ipw2200 running FC5 and have never been able to get the wireless to work. I would be interesting in knowing how you were able to turn on ipw2200 for FC5 Greg
