On Nov 12, 2007 11:02 AM, Christian Volker <cvolker at 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you