On Nov 12, 2007 11:02 AM, Christian Volker cvolker@vmware.com wrote:
Hi all!
I tried to use CentOS5 on an IBM Thinkpad R52 which has an Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Mini-PCI Adapter installed.
I downloaded the firmware from the DAG-Repo (afaik 3.0.0) and added a "alias eth1 ipw2200" to modules.conf. After the module was loaded successfully (including the firmware) I was able to configure the card.
For simplicity I didn't use any encryption. My access point as well is not using any encryption.
I tried to use DHCP, but the card didn't get assigned to any IP address. So I used the manual configuration which seemed to work fine during startup. But unfortunately not network connection could be made. So no ICMP ping packets where reaching the destination.
Using the iwconfig command I could see my SSID from the access point. Playing around with some values didn't have any success.
So I tried using FC8- and it worked fine with fixed address settings. As well as OpenSuSE 10.2.
can you compare the iwconfig output on centos5 and FC8 ?
Your was already installed when you installed centos5 ? And for FC8 ?
Can you try to install a FC8 kernel, if you don't suffer dependency problem ? (or with a FC7 kernel)
If static IP is working, are you sure your DHCP is working on the wireless side ?
Regards
Anyone an idea what's going wrong here?
Christian Volker
Technical Support Engineer
Parnell House, Barrack Square, Ballincollig, Co. Cork, Ireland
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