Hi everyone. I'm a complete noob at Linux, so bear with me.

I have a notebook which I'm trying to get wireless to work on. I haven't used the system for a while, and when I did a yum upgrade, kudzu notified me of new hardware ( the 2200 card). This was actually progress, since I haven't been able to find it at all earlier.

Solve one, discover two, right? Now I see the wireless card in the list of ethernet adapters, but not in the list of wireless ones. How do I get it recognized correctly?

Regards,
Thor

Anyone know how to solve this?

what about ipw2200.sourceforge.net

I've followed a bunch of tutorials and how-to's (including what I've found at ipw2200.sourceforge.net) but just havent managed. I think that this might be a problem that i brought with me from messing around in fc2, without really knowing what I was doing.

Thor

Could you elaborate a bit more on this? What are the outputs of ifconfig and iwconfig? It might also be helpful to know how the system is recognizing the card. We might be able to tell from the output of lsmod. In general, you need to install a driver for the card, and in this case the ipw2100 would be the choice, but it would be very useful to know what yum did.

there are three ways to make this card work:

1.you can use ndiswrapper with the latest windows drivers
2. you can use the demo driver wrapper from linuxant
3. you can use ipw2200 from sourcefourge.

ive been able to get 1 and 3 to work. ndiswrapper is prolly the easiest way to go though. basically these are the steps you need to do after gettin the winxp drivers.
#ndiswrapper -l (should say no drivers are loaded, this is just to check)
#ndiswrapper -i w22n51.inf (or the name of the windows inf file)
#modprobe (or insmod) ndiswrapper

then you can do the following the see if it is now loaded properly
#lsmod (to see if ndiswrapper is loaded as a module)
#iwconfig (should give you list of available eth devices and it will should which ones have wireless)
#ifconfig -a (should display all possible connections)
then you can bring it up with
# ifconfig wlan0 up (or the name of your device)

then just get an ip with dhcp or whatever.

to get ipw2200 to actually work its best to try to install it on a system where you have compiled the kernel yourself.

OR you can read my How-To @ http://www.fedoranews.org/contributo...ecurewireless/ and then to make life eaiser for yourself... http://www.fedoranews.org/contributo...twork_manager/