On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:17 +0100, Andrew Allen wrote: > Installed CentOS 5 on my Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop, hoping that it will > be easier to set up wireless networking than it was in CentOS 4.4. But > still sooooo difficult to get it working, mainly because there doesn't > appear to be a driver pre-installed for this wireless card ((Dell > wireless 1390 Mini PCI network card 802.11b/g). Do I still have to use > ipw2200 and what is this anyway? - I really don't understand why it is > so difficult to get wireless networking in CentOS 5 when it works like a > dream in Windows XP (I have a dual boot system, but I'd much rather use > linux!). > I've tried modprobe ipw2200 and all the rest of it with no success - > what am I doing wrong please? > > Thanks, > Andy Did you install firmware? http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php B.J. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos CentOS 5.0, Linux 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 x86_64 16:57:48 up 2 days, 8:45, 2 users, load average: 0.27, 0.19, 0.12