ipw2200: Unable to load firmware

[Chris Vanhoof]

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Sergio Antoy wrote:
| [root at antoy ~]# lspci
| 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller
(rev 03)
| 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller
(rev 03)
| 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
| 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
| 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
| 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 03)
| 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
| 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge
(rev 03)
| 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller
(rev 03)
| 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus
Controller (rev 03)
| 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
| 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97
Modem Controller (rev 03)
| 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M9+ 5C61
[Radeon Mobility 9200 (AGP)] (rev 01)
| 02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
| 02:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000
OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller
| 02:04.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments
PCI7420/PCI7620 Dual Socket CardBus and Smart Card Cont. w/ 1394a-2000
OHCI Two-Port  PHY/Link-Layer Cont. an
| 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB)
Ethernet Controller (rev 83)
| 02:0b.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
| [root at antoy ~]#
|
| Thank you for your reply,
| Sergio
|

I have the same rev card in a T-42 thinkpad running FC-3.  I've never
used the rpms, ive always just used the packages from ipw2200.sf.net.

Here is what I do, it may be worth a shot to see if this still fails:

Download the module package from the ipw2200.sf.net site, and unpack the
package:

# zcat ipw2200-1.0.1.tgz | tar xvf -

Step into the ipw2200-1.0.1 directory and run:

# make
# make install

If this goes well you should be good to go, then:

Download the matching firmware package for this build, ipw2200-fw-2.2.tgz

Unpack the package into /lib/firmware

# zcat ipw2200-fw-2.2.tgz | tar xvf - -C /lib/firmware

Once you are done with that you should be able to modprobe ipw2200 into
the kernel:

# modprobe ipw2200

Once this is done the device should be registerd, check with 'dmesg'

You should be able to scan at this point as mentioned earlier...

If this works configure the device in /etc/modprobe.conf :

alias ethX ipw2200

Let me know how this goes...


- --chris


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