F 7 and ipw2200BG Problems

[tbrowder]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 20:45
> To: For users of Fedora
> Subject: RE: F 7 and ipw2200BG Problems
...
> any case, if you have a 2200, you can safely remove the ipw2100-
> firmware
> RPM.

Done

> If you open System -> Administration -> Network, do you see eth1 and is
> it
> correctly listed as wireless?  In the Hardware tab, is it shown as the
> correct type of device?  

yes

when I try to activate it I see an error message:

  Error for wireless request: "Set Bit Rate (8B20): SET
     Failed on device eth1: Invalid argument.

> In the Devices tab, if you select it and click
> Edit, then select the Hardware device tab, does it show correctly?

Yes

> Does
> it list the correct MAC address?

Yes

> What does lsmod | grep ipw show?  

ipw2200                   141449 0
ieee80211                  35081 ipw2200

> What does iwconfig show?

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      unassociated  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"tomtomjr"
          Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=8/0  
          Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Hope that helps.

-Tom