WiFi for a laptop

[Sam Varshavchik]

Karl Larsen writes:

> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>
>> Not really. I have no idea what's in the two laptops that I have, and 
>> they work.
>>
>> The overwhelming majority of laptops have Intel Centrino chipsets 
>> which -- especially in Fedora 7 -- are generally trouble-free.
>>
>> Now, if you're talking about a laptop with an AMD CPU, that's probably 
>> when things begin to get dicey.
>>
> Hi Sam, if Windows is right the WAN miniport is a L2TP whatever that is. 

That's just a Windows software driver. It tells you nothing about the 
underlying hardware.

> The CPU is Intel and can step down in speed from about 2791 MHz. Since 
> you have two laptops working can you point me to any help you used? I 
> have the latest kernel 3232 that has a lot of stuff in modules and I can 
> get them to work if I knew how.

I did not have to do anything special. I just had to make sure that the 
ipw2200-firmware package was installed. And NetworkManager with 
NetworkManager-gnome rpms, as well. Then, everything worked without further 
tweaking. After the first boot, it took about a minute before my Linksys 
access point joined the list of my neighbors' access points in 
NetworkManager's icon, then it took a few seconds to open it up, enter my 
passphrase, and I was done.

I also see that there's an ipw2100-firmware rpm, and an ipw3045-firmware in 
freshrpms, which, presumably is the firmware image for different flavors of 
Centrino wireless, which you may need, instead of ipw2200.


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