Problems getting my wireless card to work

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Hi all,

I have just installed FC5 Test2 on my laptop (HP Pavilion zt3010us) which has a Intel Pro wireless card (centrino).

After a lot of reading on the net, I've discovered that, although the driver (ipw2100) is present in the kernel, I don't have the firmware for this card. So I have downloaded the firmware rpm (ipw2100-firmware-1.3-2.noarch.rpm from freshrpms.net) and installed it. Then I've setup manually the IP address of the interface (to 192.168.2.10, the wireless router and gateway is 192.168.2.1) and rebooted. Now the problem is that Fedora doesn't start anymore. It gets stuck trying to start sendmail. I've tried the interactive startup and skipped sendmail, but then the whole thing is really slow, it takes ages until I get to the login screen. Even then, ifconfig shows me correctly eth1 with the correct address, route shows me that 192.168.2.1 is the gateway (although it takes quite a while until I see the gateway line) and in /etc/resolv.conf I have the correct DNS server. But pinging 192.168.2.1 doesn't work, I get Destination host unreachable.

So, any ideas how can I proceed further? FC5 seems very promising, and I must say I like a lot what I've seen so far, but this issue is a showstopper for me (my router is in another room and I don't want to have wires all over the house).

Many thanks!

With regards,
Stelian Iancu
<http://heidelberg.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=1362> <http://heidelberg.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=1362>

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