On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 17:02 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 11:27 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > 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 > Install ipw2200-firmware rpm > Stop network from running and run NewworkManager and > NetworkManagerDispatcher using chkconfig. All at boot. > > A program called nm-applet will run automatically when you log in and > place its icon in the upper right side of the upper panel. > Click on that icon and choose your wireless connection form the list. > At that point you will be able to enter a WEP key if you want to and add > a security passwd for accessing the access point. > > If you have problems with this ask. > > -- > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Aaron, Thanks for your advice!!!! Finally got it working. Greg
