Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Karl Larsen writes:
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
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.
Hi Sam, if Windows is right the WAN miniport is a L2TP whatever that is.
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.
Ok I know what my WiFi device is and it isn't made by Intel. I have
stopped using Netmanager because it appeared to just be another problem.
I have a whole bunch of ipw2xxx files in the module stack. I am pulling
up ipw2100 because that is what others found work. I may need another
but not sure how to tell.
Karl
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