On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:40:25AM -0500, Brian Wall wrote: > > FC1 is installed and happy. I'm currently networked using the onboard > NIC and everything is good there. I want to be able to use the > wireless card, though, which is the onboard Centrino 802.11g card. > Based on Google searches, I have figured out the following: First off, Centrino is just a marketing buzzword. Its Intel's name for their package deal for laptops running Intel M processors, one of their wireless cards, and some of their other chipsets. You are better of searching for the searching for the chipset name, which in your case I believe is the 2200. ( I have a laptop with a 2100-based 802.11b card). > The driver is an Intel secret Partially true. The driver is open source, but it depends on loading binary firmware. > The 802.11b driver works pretty well Yep, works well for me. > The 802.11g works not so well I don't know from personal experience. It looks like its a little rougher, but functional. > Both of them are a pain in the arse to install and use, regardless The process isn't painless, but its not that bad. > No good HOWTO exists There may not be an official Howto document, but there is a lot of documentation at http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/. Have you looked there? If so, how far did you get? The process may not be well-integrated into Fedora yet, but it certainly should work. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list