FC3 Wireless Problem

Robert Jerrard rjerrard at math.concordia.ab.ca
Thu Mar 24 16:24:56 UTC 2005


I used up2date to change from Fedora kernel 2.6.10-1.766_FC3 to
2.6.10-770_FC3. The new kernel does not find my 
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 BG:

dmesg | fgrep ipw   gives:
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 0.13
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw2200_boot.fw load failed
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5

In response to an, rpm -q -f ipw2200-LICENSE.txt, I get:
ipw2200-firmware-2.2-5.at

I have seen this reported at the end of last year but the fix was to
upgrade firmware and the version quoted was earlier than mine.

In system-config-network under the hardware tab the wireless is not
listed and if I try to add a new one, the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 is not
in the list.

The wireless card is detected with the 2.6.10-1.766_FC3 kernel and works
fine with it. How can I get it working with the newer kernel?

Thanks for any help, Robert





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