Re: Intel PRO / Wireless 2200 BG listed as ethernet

"colin353" <colin353@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

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."""

Wireless IS ethernet. That is the protocol that wireless uses. What is the
problem? What do you find is wrong with it being listed as eth1? Is there
some strange religious stance?


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.

What is the problem? What needs to be fixed?


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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