Karl Larsen writes:
Sam Varshavchik wrote:Hi Sam, if Windows is right the WAN miniport is a L2TP whatever that is.Not really. I have no idea what's in the two laptops that I have, and they work.The overwhelming majority of laptops have Intel Centrino chipsets which -- especially in Fedora 7 -- are generally trouble-free.Now, if you're talking about a laptop with an AMD CPU, that's probably when things begin to get dicey.
That's just a Windows software driver. It tells you nothing about the underlying hardware.
The CPU is Intel and can step down in speed from about 2791 MHz. Since you have two laptops working can you point me to any help you used? I have the latest kernel 3232 that has a lot of stuff in modules and I can get them to work if I knew how.
I did not have to do anything special. I just had to make sure that the ipw2200-firmware package was installed. And NetworkManager with NetworkManager-gnome rpms, as well. Then, everything worked without further tweaking. After the first boot, it took about a minute before my Linksys access point joined the list of my neighbors' access points in NetworkManager's icon, then it took a few seconds to open it up, enter my passphrase, and I was done.
I also see that there's an ipw2100-firmware rpm, and an ipw3045-firmware in freshrpms, which, presumably is the firmware image for different flavors of Centrino wireless, which you may need, instead of ipw2200.
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