ipw2200 on FC4 problems

[Norman Gaywood]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:37:31AM +0000, Cyberz z wrote:
> i have placed the proper firmware files in the proper folder.
> now i'm able to configure a wireless device with the ipw2200.
> but when i try to activate it i get this error:
> 
> Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
>    SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
> Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present.  Check 
> cable?

Yes I got this once. I fixed it by commenting out in
/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1:

# CHANNEL=1
# RATE='0 kb/s'
 

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