Hello,

I need some major help on setting up my wireless drivers or something...

I'm a newbie so I'm sorry if I don't explain myself that well.

My Spec's below for my laptop...

Dell XPS M140 (Laptop)
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 750 (1.86GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
1GB Shared DDR2 SDRAM 2 Dimms
100GB 5400rpm Hard Drive
Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900
Intel Corporation Pro/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

My kernel is 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4

I read that I need to download a couple of things. So far here's what I have...

ipw2200-1.1.0-40-.rhfc4.at.i386.rpm
ipw2200-firmware-2.4-7.at noarch.rpm
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4-1.1.0-40.rhfc4.at.i686.rpm

Every time I run all the rpms using the command

rpm -ivh *.rpm I get this error message.

error: Failed dependencies:
ieee80211-kdl-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 >=1.1.6 is needed by ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4-1.1.0-40.rhfc4.at i686

Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong... All I need from what I'm looking at is one more rpm ... I can't find a rpm for ieee802111 all i see is the tar ball

Help please... I been working on this issue for the last week...

Im about to give up on FC4 and move to a different Linux if I can't figure it out.


Thanks

[Malachai]

Hi, try this link there's what you need. I think.
http://dl.atrpms.net/fc4-i386/atrpms/stable/

JdogPc

try going here
www.celifornia.com/documents and in there choose dell700m html
he explains how to set up that kind of wireless card

Hi. If you do decide to give up on Fedora, I can tell you that I've got wireless working perfectly with the same chipset in SuSE - and all from an easy-to-use SuSE GUI app (YaST).

My laptop - Sony Vaio with Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG (sorry, don't know which revision) according to YaST. ("Centrino" on the pretty stickers on the machine.)

SuSE version 10.0, Gnome, retail, but I'm sure it will work with the Open Source version.

When I first installed I couldn't get WPA to work, but after an online update (presumably a later kernel) WPA is working fine. In fact it's working absolutely reliably. In contrast, about 50% of the times Windows gets its knickers in a twist at bootup over the wireless connection. Same hardware, same router, different OS. Moral? Obvious.

Good luck with Fedora, and good luck if you decide to try SuSE.

Hello all,,,

You will not believe me after 3 weeks of trying to figure out my wireless card... I finally got it...

Here's what I did...

I re-installed FC4 one more time since I screwed up my os since I loaded so many things trying to figure things out...

After reinstalling rather then using the up2date client I went with yum...

I updated my kernel to 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4

Then I did the following.
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Let us begin by adding atrmps to your repo data base, if you already have it skip this step . Now open terminal and become root and run this command:

gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo

and add this lines:

[atrpms-stable]
name=ATrpms for Fedora Core $releasever stable
baseurl=http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/at-stable
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

and click on SAVE , also root import the gpg key from the terminal: rpm --import http://atrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms

This will be for INTEL PRO 2200 aka ipw2200
Run the installation command:

yum install ipw2200

Here is an example of procedure:

root@Malachai]# yum install ipw2200
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repos
atrpms-stable 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for ipw2200 to pack into transaction set.
ipw2200-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at 100% |=========================| 3.3 kB 00:00
---> Package ipw2200.i386 0:1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: ipw2200-kmdl-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at for package: ipw2200
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.27_FC3 to pack into transaction set.
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.27_ 100% |=========================| 4.3 kB 00:00
---> Package ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i686 0:1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.27_FC3 for package: ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.27_FC3
Importing Additional filelist information for dependency resolution
filelists.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 485 kB 00:12
MD Read : ################################################## 967/967
atrpms-sta: ################################################## 967/967
filelists.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 49 kB 00:01
MD Read : ################################################## 217/217
--> Processing Dependency: ipw2200-firmware = 2.2 for package: ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.27_FC3
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for ipw2200-firmware to pack into transaction set.
ipw2200-firmware-2.2-5.at 100% |=========================| 4.2 kB 00:00
---> Package ipw2200-firmware.noarch 0:2.2-5.at set to be updated
---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.11-1.27_FC3 set to be installed
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved
Transaction Listing:
Install: ipw2200.i386 0:1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at - atrpms-stable

Performing the following to resolve dependencies:
Install: ipw2200-firmware.noarch 0:2.2-5.at - atrpms-stable
Install: ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i686 0:1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at - atrpms-stable Install: kernel.i686 0:2.6.11-1.27_FC3 - updates-released
Total download size: 18 M
Is this ok [y/N]: ENTER a "y" for yes
Downloading Packages:
(1/4): ipw2200-1.0.0-23.r 100% |=========================| 14 kB 00:00
(2/4): ipw2200-firmware-2 100% |=========================| 180 kB 00:04
(3/4): ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.1 100% |=========================| 53 kB 00:01
(4/4): kernel-2.6.11-1.27 100% |=========================| 16 MB 07:10
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: kernel 100 % done 1/4
Installing: ipw2200-firmware 100 % done 2/4
Installing: ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.27_FC3 100 % done 3/4
Installing: ipw2200 100 % done 4/4

Installed: ipw2200.i386 0:1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at
Dependency Installed: ipw2200-firmware.noarch 0:2.2-5.at ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i686 0:1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at kernel.i686 0:2.6.11-1.27_FC3
Complete!

I did a reboot then did the following to check my device...

Go to System Tools > Internet Configuration Wizard and select a wireless connection and your divece should display. And enter that needed info for your wireless connection.


Thank you all for the good help...


[Malachai]