wireless help, Fedora

[bobkat357]

I am trying to get my built in wireless to work in FC6 its a intel Pro/wireless 2200bg I have the driver. but I cannot get it to connect

[cuervo73]

BK,

same answer as I gave as GODDLY.. go get <ndiswrapper> and <wpa_supplicant> and install them. Find them by Google search. You can use the Windows driver provided by the vendor under Linux.

cuervo

[antidrugue]

same answer as I gave as GODDLY.. go get <ndiswrapper>

Why use NDISWRAPPER when there is a perfectly working official Linux driver for the IPW2200 ?

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/

[cuervo73]

Oh, OK.. sounds reasonable

what have you tried and what were the results/errors? more info about what you did..
"..have the driver but can't get it to connect"

1. does the driver even load ? does it show something about that wireless device in /var/log/messages file during bootup?

2. what does lsmod show? is the driver shown as loaded there?

3. if not, can you force the driver to load with: modprobe DRIVERNAME or insmod DRIVERNAME? (substitute your actual driver name for DRIVERNAME, of course)

4. try this sequence:

iwlist wlan0 scan
( does it see any access point?)
(if so, extract the essid and chan # and place into...)

iwconfig essid "YOUR-ESSID" channel YOUR-CHANNEL

ifconfig wlan0 up

dhclient wlan0

(now, go look at the lease file to find the gateway IP address)

cat /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases

(the line that says option routers xx.xx.xx.xx)

route add default gw xx.xx.xx.xx

netstat -rn

(does the link LED light up on the wireless NIC??)


cuervo

[cuervo73]

one more thing... I used a device name of "wlan0" in my commend seuence above.. your device may not be "wlan0".. check the /var/log/messages file for the correct device name and substitute that for wherever you see my use of "wlan0" in prior posting.

cuervo

[bobkat357]

cool thanks I have to wait tell wed to finish getting it ready when I get back to Dallas