From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc3 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 contains version 1.0.0 of the ipw2200 driver, whereas the current version is 1.0.6. 1.0.0 is known not to work on a fair number of platforms, including the HP dv1000 series laptop. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install fc4 on a HP dv1000 series laptop 2. Install the appropriate ipw2200 firmware 3. Try to bring up the wireless interface Actual Results: DHCP stalls Expected Results: Traffic flows Additional info: 1.0.6 is known to work on this platform
Updating this driver has been a nightmare in the past due to the ieee80211 code being incompatible between multiple drivers (it has to work with ipw2100,ipw2200, and orinoco at least). This won't get updated any time soon, but the good news is that its queued for inclusion in 2.6.14