FC3 ipw2200 configuration problem

[jim lawrence]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:29:29 -0500, Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 19:36, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > Awhile back I setup a Toshiba Tecra M2 laptop with FC3.  It has the
> > 2200bg centrino wireless chip set.  At that time I had trouble getting
> > it configured to work until I used the NetworkManager package.
> >
> > That has been working fairly well.  However I had a problem getting a
> > VPN package to work with the wired connection.  Would work find over
> > wireless but not over the wired connection.
> >
> > This weekend I upgraded the laptop with the latest packages and kernel.
> 
> No takers on this problem yet.
> 
> Here is a very interesting data point.
> 
> I have another laptop running FC2 that I had been using with the same
> VPN package with no problems.  This weekend I upgraded this system with
> the latest available packages, including kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC2.
> 
> Trying to get something setup so I could do some work Monday I tried
> using the VPN client on this system which had worked previously.
> 
> With the new kernel I get the same problem as described with the latest
> FC3 versions.  So I booted an older kernel on the FC2 box,
> 2.6.10-1.12_FC2 and now the VPN works as expected.
> 
> So now I am beginning to think there is some conflict between the kernel
> version and the VPN client.
> 
> It looks like 760 and 770 have problems with the VPN client (or vice
> versa).
> 
> What FC3 kernel version roughly corresponds to 2.6.10-1.12_FC2?
> 
I too had problems before.   My only solution was to uninstall all 3
rpms related to ipw2200 (since thats what i used to get my wireless to
work). Reboot, and then install all of them again at the same time.


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Jim Lawrence
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