From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-3 Description of problem: HW is a Dell D600 laptop with Intel/PRO Wireless 2100 3B mini PCI adapter. Installation found the card & loads the ipw2100 module (the HW Browser application shows the device as /dev/eth1) but doesn't configure it. There seem to be two problems: 1) The Network Configuration application incorrectly shows the device as an Ethernet, not Wireless. After configuring the card, I edited the "TYPE=" string in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1 to be "Wireless" and re-ran the Network Configuration app to set up wireless parameters. 2) Trying to start the card gives the following message: ipw2100 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. I can't make the card be recognized. After inserting a Cisco 350 in the laptop's slot I had wireless connectivity, but it was using the eth1 configuration I'd previously set up for the Cisco -- I never had to configure the new device. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.11-1.1226_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC4 test 2 2. Configure ipw2100 device (see description) 3. 'ifup eth1' Actual Results: The following message appears on the console: ipw2100 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. Expected Results: Wireless device should have enabled & connection should have been established. Additional info:
The 'auditor' bootable CD distribution (the 14.03.2005 version) from www.remote-exploit.org configured this card with no issues.
You'll need the firmware installed too. Info on this is at http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net