On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 09:04 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
I have a student who is having similar issues, except I can't
seem to
get the card recognized at all. He has a Gateway laptop with an Intel
Calexico series WiFi card in it.
Documentation I found on it says the Calexico card uses the ipw2100 or
possibly ipw2200 drivers. I installed the firmware for these from Livna,
but couldn't find kernel module drivers for it. ATRPMs has kernel
drivers, but they seem to require Axel's custom kernels. Since I'd
already configured Livna for other things, I didn't want to do too much
mixing of 3rd party repos - it would only confuse a student who is
clearly impressed with Fedora, but still very much in learning mode.
Ideas? I'm still scratching my head as to why the card doesn't show up
as anything recognizable, and why Livna has firmware RPMs but no kernel
modules.
What are the PCI IDs of the card? You can probably get them by:
lspci | grep Intel
and look for the PRO/Wireless stuff.
However, drivers for the ipw2100 and ipw2200 are already built into the
Fedora Core kernels, so you shouldn't need to get them from anywhere.
You only need firmware (which should placed in /lib/firmware) to get
them working.
Dan