network manager fails to properly recognize intel 2915 wifi (fc 5)

I'm having a lot of problems. I've checked the longer thread about this
same topic and am reposting here for lack of responses.

MAIN PROBLEM is that when using the NetworkManager, the intel 2915 wifi
card is not recognized by the wizard. It either shows up under
ethernet devices (not wireless devices) or it doesn't show up at all.
I've noticed that this happens when I'm adding new devices or modifying
my profile. Let me add that I did get it working once, and "broke it"
when I started trying to configure a static ip for a web server. Who
knows why that happened.

(For more details about how I got it working correctly the first time,
read my post
http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/?p=83399019 )

Two subordinate but related problems:

PACKAGE MANAGEMENT/WHAT TO DOWNLOAD I'm unclear what I'm installing and
what I should be. I've been using yum/yumex in Fedora Core 5. and the
bulletin boards mention needing to download the ipw2200-firmware (which
I did) and other related programs (wpa_supplicant, ipw2200-driver).

Before I got it working the first time, I did download the
ipw2200-firmware driver, and the Network Manager wizard detected the
2915 wifi card properly. However, when I checked the /lib/firmware
directory (as one of the forum posters suggested), I didn't see any
mention of firmware having been downloaded for ipw2200. Why is that?
Is it possible that it was installed in another path? Is it possible
that I need to uninstall and then reinstall this?

The other problem is that on the ipw2200 site, the rpm for
ipw2200-driver is listed at
[url]http://atrpms.net/dist/fc5/ipw2200/[/url], but I've been following
the advice of not adding atrpm to my permanent list of repositories.
Even so, when I tried downloading the two rpms
(ipw2200-1.1.0-40.rhfc5.at.i386.rpm and
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2133_1.rhfc5.cubbi_suspend2-1.1.0-40.rhfc5.at.x86_64.rpm
) ipw2200-driver and installing them separately as rpms, I get
dependency error messages.:


rpm -i
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2133_1.rhfc5.cubbi_suspend2-1.1.0-40.rhfc5.at.x86_64.rpm
error: open of
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2133_1.rhfc5.cubbi_suspend2-1.1.0-40.rhfc5.at.x86_64.rpm
failed: No such file or directory
[root@mine yum.repos.d]#

(actually I think I downloaded the 64 bit rpm instead of the 32 bit one
listed lower on the page, so I'll have to try that).

So, should I be trying to get the aprm rpms to work/install, or have I
been missing something obvious? I'd really like to have these things
updateable in yum, and in fact, I previously was able to run the wifi
card (with wpa2) successfully without needing needing to resort to arpm
repository, so why is now different?

TESTING/RESTARTING NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS/REVERTING TO DEFAULT STATE :
I like the gui network tools on fc5. when the hardware is there, they
work fine. But apparently if I mess around with the profiles on Network
manager too much, or if I alternate between command line tools and gui
tools, that might be creating issues. I'm guessing that the GUI tools
validate my input better than touching the actual configuration files.
How do I test and troubleshoot my network connections in a way that
does not cause conflicts or corrupted settings? (Or am I simply blaming
the hardware problems on the networking configuration tool rather than
on the true cause of the problem--hardware recognition).

I am totally confused.




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