Intel PRO / Wireless 2200 BG listed as ethernet

OK...

I have been running linux for a little while, but now I want to install
it on my laptop computer.

Now I am running Fedora Core 4. Installation worked out great, but my
wireless card is giving me problems. I have installed the IPW2200
firmware (with --nodeps), kernel module (with --nodeps), and the driver
itself.

Apparently, few people are having similar problems... but I did find
this website that listed the same problem.

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:jbgJyUC1vJkJ:dizwell.com/blog/2005/12/13/+ipw2200+listed+as+ethernet&hl=en&gl=sg&ct=clnk&cd=1

(The actual site gives a 404, this is Google's cache version.)

"""The Hardware tab of the Network tool also showed an entry for an
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG network card, which is the Centrino chipset
stuff -and note that it managed to describe it all entirely correctly!
Unfortunately, it listed it as device type 'Ethernet' -which is
wrong, because it should be 'Wireless', of course. The thing was
mapped to eth1 -though no device of that name was listed on the first
Devices tab."""

Although this describes my problem perfectly, his procedure is
customized for CentOS, which, of course, I know absolutely nothing
about.

Has anyone else experienced a similar problem to me? If so, how did you
fix it? Does anyone have an idea? I would really appreciate any help.

BTW, I chose to install the kernel module and firmware using --nodeps
as a parameter because they gave a variety of crazy dependencies...
should I uninstall the RPMs and try to solve the dependencies myself?

Thanks in advance,
Colin

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