Problem getting wireless working in Fedora Core 4 (FC4) on Dell Inspiron 510m laptop

nickleus · 01-12-2006, 07:13 PM

I am having a lot of trouble getting my wireless card, Intel Pro Wireless 2100 BG, to work in Fedora Core 4 (FC4) on my Dell Inspiron 510m laptop. The ipw2100 driver seems to be installed already so i copied the firware stuff to:
/lib/firmware

but when i try to activate it in system-config-network i just get the following error:
Cannot activate network device eth1!
Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present. Check cable?

What could be the matter?

nickleus · 01-13-2006, 06:31 PM

Ok, i'm writing to you all from a wireless connection from my inspiron! I figured it out after many hours!
Here's what i did, well, i did a lot of things actually, so i'm not completely sure as to what exactly the problem was, but here are my notes.

First of all my wireless interface is something whacked up like dev30214 and not eth1. I don't know why. how do i change that? i think that number changes every time i restart the computer. how do i change it to eth1 and make it stay like that all the time?

here are the linux commands that got it running (not sure if their order is of any significance):

Code:

nano /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-dev30214
/sbin/ifup dev30214
/sbin/ifconfig dev30214
/sbin/iwconfig dev30214 essid rema1000
/sbin/iwconfig dev30214 key 36wd12d665341c45eba8e7bb1c
/sbin/iwconfig dev30214 mode Managed
/sbin/iwconfig dev30214
/sbin/ifconfig dev30214
/sbin/iwlist dev30214 scan
/sbin/dhclient dev30214

here is what my ifcfg-dev30214 looks like:

Code:

IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.1.254
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=dev30214
HWADDR=00:0c:f1:14:7e:72
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=rema1000
CHANNEL=10
MODE=Managed
RATE=11Mb/s

the gateway is the ip to my wireless router that is connected to my adsl modem which has a different network address (10.x.x.x).

I got some help here:
http://www.wirelessdefence.org/Conte...ssCommands.htm

This is Intel Wireless Pro 2100 BG with the wireless driver ipw2100 on kernel version 2.6.11 on Fedora Core 4 (FC4) on Dell Inspiron 510m.