Intel wireless firmware issue?

[Mark McBride_1]

Hi,

I have an NC6220 laptop purchased with integrated Wireless. Seemed fine at first, but then I loaded RHEL 4 WS as dual boot and couldn't get wireless to work. I tried the IPW2200 firmware and drivers I could find but still no success.

Now the wireless doesn't work in either Linux or XP. XP recognizes it, but won't let me turn it on. LED button has no effect, status bar option is grayed out, and the Intel Pro Set software says it is turned off and I need to click the "Wireless On" button below - but there is no button.

Should I reload the older firmware - if so how?

[Roderik Hamers]

Mark,

Did you look at the WHCL of your network card is compatible with Windows XP, if so just remove the integrated wireless card out of devicemanager, reboot your system and Windows will install the wireless device automatically, the second thing you can do is to set Windows at an Wireless Zero Configuration, with WZC let you control the Wireless network card with another control panel like the one Intell uses for his wireless cards.

Furthermore it could be that Linux does not see or handle your wireless card. Redhat has not include the wireless drivers for Linux with Kernel 2.6.x, which is not in the kernel by default. So you can update your kernel by yum or up2date to get the lastest kernel, if there is not ant wireless support on the lastest kernel, you will need compile one your self or find one that already has compiled with wireless support.

Its alot of text, but lets hope it solved your problem.

Roderik.

[Ernest Ford]

Try enabling the wireless card in CMOS setup