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T43 with FC5 - Enable Wireless radio
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:33 pm
by 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...
Re: T43 with FC5 - Enable Wireless radio
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:37 pm
by Volker
Cybersky wrote: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
getting wifi to work
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:57 pm
by 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.