rhel5 wireless?

[Stephen Adler]

Hi, this is exactly my problem. Where do I get the firmware? I've got an 
ipw2200 as well. I did a dmesg to find out no firmware is being loaded.

Thanks.

gboyce wrote:
>> Hi Blu,
>>
>> I've just upgraded my laptop, (sony vaio s270) to rhel5. It's a 
>> rather smart looking desktop, but I was hoping to find a nice gui to 
>> handle my wireless connection but found none. Does anyone know what's 
>> the best way to setup and configure my wireless eth1?
>
> I just installed the Centos 5 beta which is based on RHEL 5.
>
> The normal networking configuration tool handles wireless 
> configuration as well, but it appears as though the system does not 
> have the appropriate firmware out of box for my Intel IPW2200 card.  
> The configuration tool did not even provide any indication that it has 
> wireless configuration options until I manually installed the needed 
> firmware.
>
> What wireless chipset are you using?  Perhaps you're having a similiar 
> problem.
>


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