Wireless suggestion - tired of madwifi

[Jason Brown]

Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 10:45, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
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>>Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:50:51 -0400
>>>"Scot L. Harris" <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
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>>>>I spent a couple of weeks trying to get the Centrino 2200BG wireless
>>>>chip set to work in a Toshiba Tecra M2.
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>>>Funny, that.  The Centrino 2200BG wireless in my JVC MiniNote worked
>>>almost "out of the box" with recent FC3 kernels.  All I had to do was to
>>>install the firmware files for the ipw2200 driver.
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>>Same here.  I have an internal Intel 2915ABG (which is the 'upgrade' to the
>>2200BG) and it works out of the box with updated FC3 kernels (granted I
>>have the firmware installed).  Actually...I just did a search, and I don't
>>have the firmware installed...and it still works...=)
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>>-- C
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>That is why I spent so much time trying to make it work.  The problem
>was that it was able to see the AP but was unable to make a connection. 
>I was able to run iwlist scan and see my AP as well as the neighbors. 
>But when I tried to activate the interface it would not connect.  So the
>firmware and drivers appeared to be installed and work up to a point but
>not complete the connection.
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>I also tried using Networkmanager.  That actually worked for awhile but
>was not consistent.  Sometimes it would connect other times it would
>not.  At the time it seemed that Networkmanager was part of the
>problem.  I should have been able to get a connection without
>Networkmanager but was unable to for some reason.  
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>Now with the Netgear WG511 I am able to setup a connection using the
>normal network tools without using Networkmanager.
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>So far it has been very stable and works just fine.  About the only
>complaint is that due to startup order I have to manually ifup the
>interface once the system is booted.  But then that has been a problem
>for awhile.
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I have had similar issues before, to fix this go to /etc/rc.d/init.d and 
set pcmcia to start before network by giving it a lower number.