ipw2200: Unable to load firmware

[Sergio Antoy]

Chris, thanks you.

I was using exaclty your setting and the wireless networking
worked.  It stopped when I upgraded to 770. The problem was
a a failure to load the firmware.  With the latest rmp, 

        ipw2200-firmware-2.2-5.at

the firmware seems to load OK.  The problem now is the format of the
modules:


Mar 11 10:04:48 antoy modprobe: WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC3/updates/drivers/net/wireless/ipw/ieee80211.ko): Invalid module format 
Mar 11 10:04:48 antoy modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting ipw2200 (/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC3/updates/drivers/net/wireless/ipw/ipw2200.ko): Invalid module format 

These are the rmps I installed

        ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_FC3-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at
        ipw2200-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at

There are many kmdl's.  I do not know how to choose

    ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.atsmp-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at.x86_64.rpm  
    ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at.x86_64.rpm 
    ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at.x86_64.rpm
    ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_FC3-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at.x86_64.rpm

Thanks again,
Sergio

Chris writes:
> 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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