New to Fedora, struggling with wireless
Cecilia Lunardini
cecilialunardini at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 25 23:35:03 UTC 2006
Hi,
I still no luck. I tried Matthew Saltzman's "going
back" steps (copied below) and still my wireless card
is not detected, even after rebooting. I have the
firmware installed.
Here is what I have done:
[root at localhost ~]# uname -r
2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
[root at localhost ~]#
[root at localhost ~]# rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs
--oldpackage kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.i686.rpm
Preparing...
########################################### [100%]
1:kernel
########################################### [100%]
[root at localhost ~]# dmesg | grep ipw
[root at localhost ~]# dmesg | grep ipw*
[root at localhost ~]#
I am getting discouraged. I don't understand what I am
doing wrong, and so I am quite confused.
Cecilia
--- Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> Going back entails getting a copy of your kernel RPM
> and installing it
> with the command
>
> rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --oldpackage
> kernel-2.6.18-1.xxxx.fc6-i686.rpm
>
> where xxxx comes from the kernel you are running.
> (Run "uname -r" to see
> what goes there.)
>
> Or if you haven't run updates, you can ignore the
> broken old kernel and
> just do
>
> yum update kernel
>
> (assuming you have a wired Internet connection).
> That will install
> kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6. When you reboot, you'll
> have the modules.
>
> Did you get the firmware installed? If so, when you
> install the new or
> replacement kernel, everything should work. Check
> that the device is
> detected with
>
> dmesg | grep ipw
>
> You should see messages like
>
> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network
> Driver, 1.1.4kmprq
> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
> ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
> Network Connection
> ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg
> channels, 0 802.11a channels)
>
> Then check the configuration as I described in
> another message with System
> -> Administration -> Network.
>
> Good luck.
>
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