Intel Pro 2200BG wireless + WPA-SPK issue?
Jim
lawrence.jim at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 16:21:42 UTC 2004
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
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[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]#
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the faTEL PART is bothering me
please help
thanks
--
James Lawrence
Rochester NY
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