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Even Linux advocates admit that Linux is not as user-friendly as it should be when it comes to mobile networking:<\/p>\n

“Networking on Linux right now is painful for the mobile desktop user, especially in comparison to other operating systems. A laptop user should never need to use the command line or configuration files to manage their network; it should ‘Just Work’ as automatically as possible and intrude as little as possible into the user’s workflow.”<\/p>\n

GNOME NetworkManager project website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh how true!<\/p>\n

A couple of nights back, I was staying at a hotel which only offered Wi-Fi connectivity for guest Internet access. That’s all very well if you have Wi-Fi configured on your laptop but, since rebuilding on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 last week, I haven’t got around to setting up the Intel PRO Wireless 2200BG adapter in my notebook. It turns out that it is pretty straightforward, once you have worked out what to do.<\/p>\n

I recently wrote about configuring wireless Ethernet with Fedora Core 5<\/a> (using the same computer). After a long-winded effort, installing updated drivers, kernel modules and firmware, I finally got it working but only on one network and not with the NetworkManager<\/a> applet. Then, I found out that the drivers are included in the kernel by default – all that is required is the correct firmware.<\/p>\n

As it happens, the same is true for RHEL (lsmod | grep ipw2200<\/code> told me that ipw2200 and ieee80211 were both present in the kernel) and Jeff at nethub.org<\/a> suggests (for CentOS<\/a>, which is basically a rebadged version of RHEL<\/a>):<\/p>\n

“…download the firmware from the Intel Pro\/Wireless 2200GB SourceForge project<\/a><\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

After downloading the file, type in the following commands as root:<\/p>\n

tar -zxf ipw2200-fw-2.0.tgz
\nmv *.fw \/lib\/firmware\/
\nrmmod ipw2200<\/code><\/p>\n

Then, wait a few seconds, and type:<\/p>\n

modprobe ipw2200<\/code>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s actually even easier than that – the RHEL supplementary CD includes an RPM for the appropriate firmware (so why it’s not installed by default I don’t know) and, after installing the package and running modprobe ipw2200<\/code>, eth1 became visible in my computer. Running service NetworkManager start<\/code> and service NetworkManagerDispatcher start<\/code> launched the NetworkManager applet too; although to make the change permenant, I used chkconfig NetworkManager on<\/code> and chkconfig NetworkManagerDispatcher on<\/code>. I also found that a reboot was required before all the wireless network components got themselves in order.<\/p>\n

Following this, it was a case of selecting the appropriate SSID from the NetworkManager icon, and supplying the appropriate security details when prompted.<\/p>\n

\"Network<\/p>\n

Following that, a connection was established (and NetworkManager even activates\/deactivates the wired network connection as appropriate).<\/p>\n

\"Network<\/p>\n

It seems that getting wireless in Linux is<\/em> becoming easier but it’s still not as simple as it should be. NetworkManager helps (a lot) but if the leading Linux distribution had automatically detected my industry-standard hardware (as Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise did… and as Windows did), it would have been a whole lot easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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