On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Primorec wrote:
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 7:40 PM, Primorec igor.furlan@gmail.com wrote:
Short description of my problem:
I am not able to make wireless network working on the IBM ThinkPad T43p.
System: T43p OS: CentOS 4.4 kernel: 2.6.9-34.EL firmware: ipw2200-firmware-3.0-3.nodist.rf.noarch.rpm
Can some merciful soul give me a hint or/and solution or/and RTFM pointer for my problem ?
I've solved the problem by installing Ubuntu 7.10 on the Laptop. Wireless worked 'out of the box'.
I have a Thinkpad T43 and am using these:
ipw2200-firmware-3.0-3.nodist.rf kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 NetworkManager-0.6.4-6.el5
Then make sure NetworkManager is running by doing:
chkconfig NetworkManager on service NetworkManager start
as root.
Remember that CentOS is both a Server as a Desktop OS and therefor not all services you expect to run are enabled for a Desktop. (like NetworkManager)
If you are running CentOS as a Desktop, you are often much better off using the most recent CentOS release (like CentOS 5.1).