rhel5 wireless?

[adler at stephenadler.com (Stephen Adler)]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!!

My vaio is now happyly transmitting on its wifi! (It's been 3 years 
since I got the laptop and this is the first time it's actually working 
well under linux!)

I tried using the NetworkManager, and it sure looks promising. But right 
now, all it does is go into an infinite loop of activating and 
deactivating the network interfaces. I don't see a clean way of starting 
up the NetworkManager from the pull down menus, which makes me think 
that there is some configuration I need to setup before I use it. Or is 
there another app which allows me to choose which wireless network to 
hookup to?

Cheers. Steve.

gboyce wrote:
> http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=7
>
> Just copy the .fw files into /lib/firmware and then unload and reload 
> the ipw2200 driver (or reboot).
>
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Stephen Adler wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>


-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.