Thanks Fabian, There seem to be a number of different ways of installing the ipw2200 firmware and as I've said already I've tried puttting the .fw files into the firmware directory - why doesn't this work? What is actually the best/recommended way of installing the firmware in CentOS 5 please? - not too complicated please as I'm a linux enthusiast but not a great expert!
Andy
Original Message: ----------------- From: Fabian Arrotin fabian.arrotin@arrfab.net Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:57:28 +0200 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] ipw220 wireless firmware for CentOS 5
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 05:33 -0400, andy.allen@virgin.net wrote:
OK, I've downloaded and unzipped the firmware files in ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz - so I have 4 files: ipw2200-bss.fw, ipw2200-ibss.fw, ipw2200-sniffer.fw and LICENSE.ipw2200-fw, all of which I've placed in the /lib/firmware directory. Unfortunately, the instructions in README.ipw2200 and INSTALL are not clear as to what to do next. I'm using CentOS 5 on my (Dell) laptop so setting-up wireless networking
should
be reasonably straightforward - shouldn't it? Any help much appreciated - I'm a real linux fan, but it grieves me to say that, in this case, "wireless works much better in Windows XP!"
Use the ipw2200-firmware rpm from the RPMForge repo (see http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories) .... Then you'll be able to use/configure the ipw2200 device . You can use for example NetworkManager to automatically configure your network if you have a laptop ...