rhel5 wireless?

[gboyce at badbelly.com (gboyce)]

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=7

Just copy the .fw files into /lib/firmware and then unload and reload 
the ipw2200 driver (or reboot).

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Stephen Adler wrote:

> Hi, this is exactly my problem. Where do I get the firmware? I've got an 
> ipw2200 as well. I did a dmesg to find out no firmware is being loaded.
>
> Thanks.
>
> gboyce wrote:
>>> Hi Blu,
>>> 
>>> I've just upgraded my laptop, (sony vaio s270) to rhel5. It's a rather 
>>> smart looking desktop, but I was hoping to find a nice gui to handle my 
>>> wireless connection but found none. Does anyone know what's the best way 
>>> to setup and configure my wireless eth1?
>> 
>> I just installed the Centos 5 beta which is based on RHEL 5.
>> 
>> The normal networking configuration tool handles wireless configuration as 
>> well, but it appears as though the system does not have the appropriate 
>> firmware out of box for my Intel IPW2200 card.  The configuration tool did 
>> not even provide any indication that it has wireless configuration options 
>> until I manually installed the needed firmware.
>> 
>> What wireless chipset are you using?  Perhaps you're having a similiar 
>> problem.
>> 
>

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