Problems with ipw2200 wireless in FC6

[Charles Curley]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 08:22:32AM -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Em Sexta 01 Dezembro 2006 17:49, Charles Curley escreveu:
> > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 08:35:23PM +0100, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
> > > El Viernes, 1 de Diciembre de 2006 20:17, Marcelo Magno T. Sales escribió:
> > > > Hi, people
> > >
> > > try to set the HWADDR manually to each interface in your:
> > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
> > >
> > > Using the line below:
> > > HWADDR=00:0a:e4:c4:02:cd
> > >
> > > (Change the HWADDR to use yours or whatever)
> > > Hope that helps
> >
> > You can do this from system-config-network, from the Gnome menu:
> > System-> Admnistration-> Network. It will probe the hardware for you.
> >
> > If you have multiple interfaces, do it for all of them.
> 
> Thanks for your answer, I'll try that when I get home again. However, since 
> the UTP and wireless cards are of different models and brands, would it not 
> be enough to bind the eth* devices to them using the hardware 
> identifications?

Indeed it should. I did a fresh installation of FC6, and do not recall
creating the infamous /etc/iftab, but I do have one. Maybe
system-config-network created it for me. However I got along quite
nicely in FC5 without one.

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