T43 with FC5 - Enable Wireless radio

[Cybersky]

Hi,

I'm new in Linux and I'm testing Fedora5 on my T43 but I can't find a way to enable the wireless radio.

Any idea?

Thanks...

[Volker]

I'm new in Linux and I'm testing Fedora5 on my T43 but I can't find a way to enable the wireless radio.

Presumably, you have the ipw2200 (since its B/G only). The drivers are already in FC5, you just need the firmware from http://ipw2200.sf.net and copy it to /lib/firmware

[rjnagle]

Hi, there, I'm dealing with the same issues you speak of. I'm figuring it out now.

What I've learned so far:

http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showth ... p?t=101489
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/INSTALL

http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/548
(need to update wpa_supplicant?)

I haven't completed these steps yet, and am documenting my journey here

http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/ ... p=83399019


In addition, one thing I noticed that helps a lot is making sure Network Manager service is turned on. That puts an icon in the gnome desktop to give network status.

http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05 ... rkmanager/


That app looks nifty (aside from the generic title), but you need to turn it on and add it to default running services.

I hope this helps someone out there, because if I came across this, it would have saved me a few hours of troubleshooting.