dudds
2006-12-28, 04:59 PM CST
I've been having some difficulties with getting a reliable wireless network setup under FC6. I have a Centrino based network running the ipw2200 drivers (ie worked perfectly with these drivers under Ubuntu). Anyways what I have done thus far is:
1. Checked that the modules are installed by running lsmod:
[david@Homer ~]$ /sbin/lsmod | grep ipw2200
ipw2200 112037 0
ieee80211 34953 1 ipw2200
2. Downloaded v3.0 of the firmware and installed into the directory /lib/firmware:
/lib/firmware/LICENSE.ipw2200-fw
/lib/firmware/ipw2200-bss.fw
/lib/firmware/ipw2200-ibss.fw
/lib/firmware/ipw2200-sniffer.fw
3. Edited the network via system-config-network GUI and set it so that the network interfaces are NOT activated when the network starts. If I try to activate via this tool I get some error about not being able to find the hardware (or some such error)
4. Went into the Service Configuration and made sure that NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher were ticked for both run levels 3 and 5.
5. I can confirm that Network Manager does display in the notifications area when I reboot my laptop.
Questions
1. I noticed that firmware v3.0 is for driver 1.1.1 and newer. How do I determine what driver I have installed at the moment?
2. My wireless network will randomly not work. When this is the case I notice that when I do an 'ifconfig' command I do not see eth1, eth0 and lo interfaces but instead eth0, lo and __tmp1804289383 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:F0:0F:C17. What the hell is all that about? I have no idea, but Network Manager will not be able to bring up my wireless interface when the output of the ifconfig command is like that. When it's normal it works fine. Thing that frustrates me is that it will not work randomly, WHY?? Please help.
As a general comment I cannot see why something like this is so hard to get working under FC6 as it was extremely easy under Ubuntu. Once setup it worked flawlessly everytime!! FC6 seems snappier on my laptop with programs loading quicker (or so it seems to me), but I'm rapidly getting cheesed off with this random problem. Can anyone help before I go crazy.
Thanks,
David
1. Checked that the modules are installed by running lsmod:
[david@Homer ~]$ /sbin/lsmod | grep ipw2200
ipw2200 112037 0
ieee80211 34953 1 ipw2200
2. Downloaded v3.0 of the firmware and installed into the directory /lib/firmware:
/lib/firmware/LICENSE.ipw2200-fw
/lib/firmware/ipw2200-bss.fw
/lib/firmware/ipw2200-ibss.fw
/lib/firmware/ipw2200-sniffer.fw
3. Edited the network via system-config-network GUI and set it so that the network interfaces are NOT activated when the network starts. If I try to activate via this tool I get some error about not being able to find the hardware (or some such error)
4. Went into the Service Configuration and made sure that NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher were ticked for both run levels 3 and 5.
5. I can confirm that Network Manager does display in the notifications area when I reboot my laptop.
Questions
1. I noticed that firmware v3.0 is for driver 1.1.1 and newer. How do I determine what driver I have installed at the moment?
2. My wireless network will randomly not work. When this is the case I notice that when I do an 'ifconfig' command I do not see eth1, eth0 and lo interfaces but instead eth0, lo and __tmp1804289383 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:F0:0F:C17. What the hell is all that about? I have no idea, but Network Manager will not be able to bring up my wireless interface when the output of the ifconfig command is like that. When it's normal it works fine. Thing that frustrates me is that it will not work randomly, WHY?? Please help.
As a general comment I cannot see why something like this is so hard to get working under FC6 as it was extremely easy under Ubuntu. Once setup it worked flawlessly everytime!! FC6 seems snappier on my laptop with programs loading quicker (or so it seems to me), but I'm rapidly getting cheesed off with this random problem. Can anyone help before I go crazy.
Thanks,
David