Intel Pro 2200BG wireless + WPA-SPK issue?

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 11:21 -0500, Jim wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 01:39:49 -0500 (EST), Madhan Premkumar
> <mpremkum at fit.edu> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I dont know whether this topic is discussed before in the list or not. But
> > i am posting here again.
> > Recently I installed Fedora Core 3 in my laptop. Everything went ok. But
> > struck with my wireless card. I have Intel Pro 2200BG wireless lan card.
> > I checked the open source of that site (http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net)
> > and installed the firmware and the driver in FC3 and bingo after restart
> > FC3 detected the hardware and after little work, i was able to connect to
> > my wireless router and hence to internet. But that is without security, ie
> > router is open to all. But when i set my router to WPA-SPK security, I
> > could not connect thereafter. I dont know whether Intel pro 2200BG driver
> > support WPA-SPK or not. Do anyone have any idea about this ? Like securing
> > the router instead of open in Fedora environment with Intel Pro 2200BG
> > wireless card ?
> > Help will be greatly appreciated.
> > I checked the sourceforge site.. but could not get enough information
> > about WPA-PSK stuff.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Madhan
> > 
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> 
> i'm trying to follow this thread to get my wireless working and i'm
> having no luck!
> if you could please help me through this
> ihave the nfirmware installed in to the  /lib/firmware   as it said in
> my firmware.agent file
> i did the make for the driver  
> please read thorugh to make sure i didn't mess it up 
> ********************************************************************
> [root at Home ~]# cd /home
> [root at Home home]# cd jim
> [root at Home jim]# cd wireless
> [root at Home wireless]# ls
> ipw2100-1.0.0-27.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm  wireless firmware
> ipw2200-0.19                        wirelessRPMs
> ipw2200-0.19.tgz                    wireless_tools.27
> ipw2200-fw-2.1.tgz                  wireless_tools.27.tar.gz
> [root at Home wireless]# cd ipw2200-0.19
> [root at Home ipw2200-0.19]# make
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/build
> SUBDIRS=/home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19
> MODVERDIR=/home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19 modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/build'
>   CC [M]  /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ipw2200.o
>   CC [M]  /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ieee80211_module.o
>   CC [M]  /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ieee80211_tx.o
>   CC [M]  /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ieee80211_rx.o
>   CC [M]  /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ieee80211_wx.o
>   LD [M]  /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ieee80211.o
>   CC [M]  /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ieee80211_crypt.o
>   CC [M]  /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ieee80211_crypt_wep.o
>   Building modules, stage 2.
>   MODPOST
> Warning: could not find versions for .tmp_versions/ipw2200.mod
>   CC      /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ieee80211.mod.o
>   LD [M]  /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ieee80211.ko
>   CC      /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ieee80211_crypt.mod.o
>   LD [M]  /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ieee80211_crypt.ko
>   CC      /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ieee80211_crypt_wep.mod.o
>   LD [M]  /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ieee80211_crypt_wep.ko
>   CC      /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ipw2200.mod.o
>   LD [M]  /home/jim/wireless/ipw2200-0.19/ipw2200.ko
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/build'
> [root at Home ipw2200-0.19]# . load
> No modules unloaded.
> Loaded: ieee80211_crypt ieee80211_crypt_wep ieee80211 ipw2200
> [root at Home ipw2200-0.19]# modprobe ipw2200
> FATAL: Module ipw2200 not found.
> [root at Home ipw2200-0.19]#
> ************************************************************************************
> the faTEL PART is bothering me  
> please help
> thanks
> 


It seems the load script actually loads the modules.  
However, you did not run "make install" so the module likely was not put
where it would be found when running modprobe.

Make install normally does several things.  1. it puts the module in
the /lib/modules/<kernel version> tree so it is available.  then 2.  it
runs depmod -a so the modules are now all listed and can be found by
modprobe (complete with any dependencies needed). 

I do not use your card, so I cannot try loading the modules, but the
general process for installing software is

1. download
2. untar/unpack
3. configure
4. make
5. make install

The only one of those that routinely requires root permissions is the
last.