WiFi card detected as Ethernet

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 09:48 -0600, Caerie Houchins wrote:
> I have the intel card wireless card too.  It will show up as a wired
> ethernet card untill you install the ipw2100 firmware.  Some repos
> have the RPM but its probably legally questionable and not included in
> the core distro.  Ran accross this on my Dell 6000 laptop. 
> 
> Caerie
> 
> On 2/26/06, Leon Stringer <leon.stringer at ntlworld.com> wrote:
<snip...>
>         So I have two questions:
>         
>                 - What can I do to get it to be listed as a WiFi card
>         or will I have to 
>         hack the scripts manually?
>         
>                 - Is this a known bug?
>         
>         The card is listed as "Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100
>         3B Mini

I have a student who is having similar issues, except I can't seem to
get the card recognized at all. He has a Gateway laptop with an Intel
Calexico series WiFi card in it.

Documentation I found on it says the Calexico card uses the ipw2100 or
possibly ipw2200 drivers. I installed the firmware for these from Livna,
but couldn't find kernel module drivers for it. ATRPMs has kernel
drivers, but they seem to require Axel's custom kernels. Since I'd
already configured Livna for other things, I didn't want to do too much
mixing of 3rd party repos - it would only confuse a student who is
clearly impressed with Fedora, but still very much in learning mode.

Ideas? I'm still scratching my head as to why the card doesn't show up
as anything recognizable, and why Livna has firmware RPMs but no kernel
modules.

Cheers,

Chris

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