Wireless networking in CentOS 4.4

[Romeo Theriault]

Is there any reason that you need to use Cent OS 4.4 for this? Cent OS 5
would surely have better support for newer hardware such as you are running.
Fedora or Ubuntu would probably work even better on your laptop.

Romeo

On 6/26/07, Andrew Allen <andy.allen at virgin.net> wrote:
>
> Trying to set up wireless networking with CentOS 4.4 on a (new Dell)
> laptop and have looked at http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-
> ipw2200.shtml
> and http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?
> topic_id=2532&forum=30
> regarding use of ipw2200, which is included in the kernel. The problem
> is that it doesn't appear to be actually installed/loaded because the
> Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG driver doesn't appear in the drop-
> down list under Devices > New > Wireless Connection in system-config-
> network.
> Also /sbin/lsmod | grep ipw doesn't produce anything - so I'm pretty
> baffled!
> Any suggestions please?
>
> Andy
>
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