F 7 and ipw2200BG Problems
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at CU.CLEMSON.EDU
Wed Jun 6 21:26:09 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:46 -0500, tbrowder wrote:
> > -----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.
That seems to be harmless.
What's in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1?
>
> > 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
>
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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