Is wireless support any better with FC5?

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 17:46, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
>On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 10:22 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Friday 21 April 2006 10:13, Alexander Mamchenkov wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > > I have a Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100, and the ipw2100 driver is
>> > > now in the kernel (Later FC4 kernels also have it). It appears
>> > > rock solid (although the version in the current FC5 kernel is
>> > > 1.1.3 and thus does not yet support WPA I think... WEP should be
>> > > fine though.)
>> >
>> > I have Intel(R) PRO/WIreless 2200 and it works pretty fine with
>> > ipw2200. The only thing I had to do was to update the firmware. I
>> > also found out that I have some problems on newer kernels (after I
>> > do update), but it works pretty fine on the kernel supplied on FC5
>> > installation CDs
>> >
>> > > I also use NetworkManager, which I would also suggest is much
>> > > more stable in FC5 than it was in FC4 - With this running things
>> > > really did "just work" for me after installing FC5, which was
>> > > not the case for FC4. I haven't had to do a single bit of
>> > > network setup and the wireless connects fine, and plays well
>> > > with my ethernet connection "Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT"
>> >
>> > Since I use KDE I use KWifiManager and it works fine.
>>
>> Do you use encryption?  I have a laptop with the same ipw2200, which
>> will be upgraded soon, and I want to use WPA-PSK, just as I can in
>> the windows setup.
>
>Anne, have you looked at ndiswrapper?  It allows you to use the
> wireless win32 drivers under linux.  Therefore you gain all the
> capabilities thereof, including WPA-PSK.  Livna maintains the
> ndiswrapper packages.
>
>There is one caveat.  You have to recompile the kernel to raise the
>stack level from 4 to 16.  They recommend at least 16 stacks for
>win32/ndiswrapper drivers.  There may be someone out there that's
>already packaged the latest FC5 kernel with 16k stacks.

I did not have to do that to use the XP driver bcmwl5 with ndiswrapper 
here.

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>
>LX
>
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