[PlanetCCRMA] intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG with planetedge kernels

[Peter Lutek]

some things i just noticed:

on the "devices" tab of system-config-network, eth1 was showing a
regular ethernet icon; changing ifcfg-eth1 to make the TYPE "Wireless"
rather than "wireless" changes that icon to the wireless icon -- so we
know the type should be "Wireless". on the "hardware" tab, eth1 is still
labelled as type Ethernet, and has the ethernet icon. how do we get the
ipw2200 hardware recognized as "Wireless"?

-p

> did you ever post your /etc/modules.conf?
> 
> and of course lsmod |grep ipw
> 
> and a new one. after you do a modprobe could you also do a tail
> /var/log/messages
> 
> Don't fret, I am using this right now under your kernel, so we will
> get it to work.
> 
> m.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:23:13 -0500, Peter Lutek <plutek@infinity.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 12:06, Peter Lutek wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 10:23, Matthew Allen wrote:
> > > > This is why I asked mark about which wireless adapter he has. I have
> > > > this working on my machine, without having to recompile the kernel.
> > > >
> > > > 2.6.7-1.437.1.ll.rhfc2.ccrma
> > > >
> > 
> > ok... sorry, guys. i'm back.
> > 
> > i've dropped my kernel back to the version mentioned above -
> > 2.6.7-1.437.1.ll.rhfc2.ccrma - because i cannot successfully write CD's
> > with a 2.6.8 kernel. unfortunately, now the ipw2200 no longer works.
> > 
> > i did:
> > 
> > cd /whatever/ipw2200-0.13
> > make uninstall
> > make clean
> > make
> > make install
> > checked that the firmware was still in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
> > checked that the relevant kernel configs were the same as the 2.6.8
> > checked keys-eth1 and ifcfg-eth1
> > 
> > i'm now stuck at my previous problem, that when i try to activate eth1,
> > i get the error message "ipw220 device eth1 does not seem to be
> > present". doing rmmod, wait, then modprobe doesn't seem to help this
> > time.
> > 
> > ugh!
> > 
> > any new ideas?
> > 
> > -p
> > 
> >
>