Re: ipw220 wireless firmware for CentOS 5

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On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 05:33 -0400, andy.allen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> OK, I've downloaded and unzipped the firmware files in
> ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz - so I have 4 files: ipw2200-bss.fw, ipw2200-ibss.fw,
> ipw2200-sniffer.fw and LICENSE.ipw2200-fw, all of which I've placed in
> the /lib/firmware directory. Unfortunately, the instructions in
> README.ipw2200 and INSTALL are not clear as to what to do next. I'm
> using CentOS 5 on my (Dell) laptop so setting-up wireless networking should
> be
> reasonably straightforward - shouldn't it? Any help much appreciated -
> I'm a real linux fan, but it grieves me to say that, in this case,
> "wireless works much
> better in Windows XP!"

Use the ipw2200-firmware rpm from the RPMForge repo (see
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories)  .... Then you'll be able to
use/configure the ipw2200 device . You can use for example
NetworkManager to automatically configure your network if you have a
laptop ...

-- 
Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Solution ? 
echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc

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