Problem with wireless on FC5

Paul Goodman lancherider at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 17 21:11:00 UTC 2006


I have an IBM ThinkPad T42 with an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG running Fedora 
Core 5. Here is the output from lspci:

02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

The card didn't work after install, but after installing the ipw2200 drivers 
and firmware, I was able to successfully configure it as eth1 using 
system-config-network. Everything looks great.

Then, I reboot. When the computer comes back up, the wireless card is no 
longer recognized, and I can't use any of the usual if* commands to activate 
it. I run system-config-network again, and the interface shows up, but if I 
try to activate it, I get the following:

Device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

The only way to restore the connection that I've found is to delete the 
interface in system-config-network, then go to /lib/firmware and do 
restorecon -v. Then, I reboot and I can reconfigure the interface when the 
computer is back up again. But as soon as I reboot, it starts all over 
again.

Anyone have any ideas?





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