Hello all,

I just installed FC4 yesterday on my dell X1 and I ran into a little bit of trouble trying to install my wireless settings for work.

Mainly the problem is that my wireless card is being recognized as an ethernet card vs a wireless card. When I try to create a new configuration for this card, it doesn't show up when I select wireless but when I select ethernet my wireless shows up as well as my ethernet card.

If I try to configure it as an ethernet card, I don't have the option to put in my WEP info (obviously) and when I try to select other wireless device and navigate to the drivers for this card, the drivers are not listed and the few that I thought might be compatible don't work at all.

Question:
Is it possible to find a way to re-classify this as a wireless card so that I can put in my wep settings? Maybe edit the ethernet settings file?

If not what else can I do to get this to work. Im pretty sure this card is supported since it did show up, it just showed up in the wrong place.

The ethernet card is Intel(R)PRO/Wireless 2200BG

I'm not sure this is relevant anymore with fc4, but with fc2 and fc3, when I had to deal with these cards, I went here:
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for the reference, I will give it a shot and post how it works out.

I started to follow the instructions until I got to this part. I went looking for the Device Drivers menu (I think its a menu) to be able to get to Hotplug Firmware Loading Support but I couldn't find it. Can anyone tell me where it maybe? and how I can enable it?

The IPW2200 supports loading of firmware via the Linux firmware hotplug
capability. In order to use this, you must enable CONFIG_FW_LOADER in
your kernel configuration. In 2.6.x this option is enabled via:

Device Drivers ->
Generic Driver Options ->
Hotplug firmware loading support

You can check if it is enabled with:

% grep CONFIG_FW_LOADER \
/lib/modules/2.6.10/build/include/linux/autoconf.h

if you get any output from that grep command, I think you are all set.

for me I did this:
[willis@trilobite linux]$ grep CONFIG_FW_LOADER autoconf.h
#define CONFIG_FW_LOADER 1
[willis@trilobite linux]$ pwd
/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.6_FC2/build/include/linux

Right now if I type in the command grep CONFIG_FW_LOADER autoconf.h I get
grep:autoconf.h: No such file or directory

That was the same when I typed the command that was given to me with the install instructions. So I need to find a way to enable this.

Is that what your (#define CONFIG_FW_LOADER 1) is? This particular issue would be new to me so I would need it to be idiot proof if possible on how to do it.

I was doing some research on this in google and it mentions using the command make menuconfig in the kernel source directory to enable this then having to recomplie the source in a ways, is that really what I have to go through in order to get this to work?

Thanks for the reference, I ran into someone on the mailing list at that site that told me all I needed to do is download the firmware rpm then run the command modprobe -r ipw2000 then modprobe ipw2200 to reload the drivers and all worked fine once I created the new connection. All this after reading the directions on the site and mucking up my system something terrible then reloading it all. Live and Learn !!!