Yesterday a friend asked me to setup FC5 for him on his laptop, amusing in itself as he works for Redhat.
Most things worked as perfectly as they had for me on other laptop installs, but I had 2 issues, both of them important enough to be show-stoppers. Wireless wasn’t detected, and contrary to the posts I had read, suspend and hibernate were not working.
The wireless issue really bugged me. This was a centrino chip, surely it should work. For some reason, I don’t fathom yet, the kernel supports the ipw2100 and 2200 chipsets, but the supporting software is not included. With the livna repo enabled I just installed the packages:
# yum install ipw2200-firmware
Once installed the wireless worked fine. I enabled NetworkManager:
# chkconfig NetworkManager on
Once I restarted the machine, wireless worked perfectly, and I was impressed to see all WPA standards supported. NetworkManager is fantastic.
The laptop would suspend and hibernate, but the the display driver would not resume correctly, installing the FGLRX driver from ATI fixed that.
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