This is my first successful attempt at getting the centrino wireless up on my laptop in Linux. I am now using ipw2100 1.0.0 with the 1.3 firmware on FC3. It works without encryption/security. Unfortunately I am unable to connect to my wireless router using wep.

It is not entirely clear to me how all of this works. The install document says that I need CRC32 for crypto. In /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.678_FC3/kernel/crypto I only find crc32c.ko. Is that equivalent or is having that instead of a crc32.ko contributing to my lack of success with wep?

I have tried iwconfig from the command line following suggestions found here on LQ in other non Fedora threads, at http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_.../Wireless.html and from the book Linux Unwired but with no success. I have also tried using Fedora's network config and kWifi.

If anyone has wep working on FC3 with an Intel 2100 card, I'd sure appreciate some pointers. I seem to find that solutions to these kind of problems tend to be very obvious and right in front of me but as happens I'm missing this one.

Thanks.

I am now using Suse 9.1 and i have the same problems. It seems not the problem of the wireless lan card because i have input 2 different chipest of card in to my laptop but the problem is still the same. I can't have the connection if i use wap , if no wap, it works. Can any one tell me what to do ?

I've managed to make ipw2100 work, with WEP, in FC3.

Step I've taken:
1 - installed the RPMs that I found in http://atrpms.net
2 - configured the Wireless connection using the system-control-network
3 - (because my network is in shared mode) changed the connection scripts to use the restricted mode

Hope this helps!

I have a Dell laptop Inspiron8600 and I have to use encryption key to access
my 2Wire AP.
Is this what your refering to?
Below is my eth1 ipw2100 wirless config;
Last line is key code setup for AP.

Jim

# Intel Corp.|PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=mickey
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
HWADDR=00:04:23:99:06:48
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=
TYPE=Wireless
IPV6INIT=no
ESSID=2WIRE783
CHANNEL=6
MODE=Auto
RATE=Auto
IWCONFIG="key open 8946254064"

Yesterday up2date brought my kernel up to 2.6.9-1.724_FC3 and when I rebooted Kudzu wanted to configure my IPW2100 much to my suprise. So, I tried that. Of course I didn't have the firmware and it didn't work.

Got the firmware, put it into /lib/firmware.

Then I flailed about trying to connect with wep!!!!!

Thanks to another post I found out that the key is case specific.

I am currently connected with FC3 and my laptop's ipw2100 to my Linksys b/g router.

Steps to connect after getting hardware running:

iwconfig eth1 essid xxxxxxxx
iwconfig eth1 key restricted xxxxxxxxx [1]
(The [1] should let me use just that next time and not the whole key. Haven't tried it yet. Also I entered the key in hex and got in those pesky caps.)
dhclient eth1

ifup eth1 complains and doesn't work. I know the file needs to be set up correctly but don't yet know how to do that or even at the moment remember where it is.

It's up and running. I can't believe it, I've only had this laptop for 1 year and 3 months and it was the previous year's hot model back then. Anyhow, success with a Toshiba M10-S405.

Sorry about the rambling post but.........

Cheers.

See

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/j...ecurewireless/

Flysideways, Where did you get the IPW2100 firmware from?
I need to setup ipw2100 on my Dell inspiron8600.

Jim

see http://fedoranews.org/contributors/j...ence/wireless/

and then

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/j...ecurewireless/

there are linksto the file you need in the first url

http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firmware.php is the page for the firmware.