Inel Wireless 2915ABG & FC4 on Dell Inspiron 9300

[Linux]

Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:03, Rick Stevens wrote:
>   
>> Linux wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>> Have tried a couple of other linux distro's for a while, but have to go 
>>> back  to Fedora C4 :-)
>>>
>>> I have read a couple of pages on the net  about this card, but i was 
>>> hoping for an easyer solution, since my card is detected in the hardware 
>>> browser in KDE
>>>
>>> I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 Laptop, and is getting a problem with my 
>>> Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection miniPCI adapters. Running 
>>> FC4 with all updates & latest kernel at the time of writing.
>>>
>>> I can see the card in the hardware browser, but when i try to add it in 
>>> the network setup i can not get it to work. The message says it can not 
>>> activate it. In the network setup it is detected as a regular network 
>>> card and not a wireless...
>>>
>>> The WiFi indication light is also not working, but the bluetooth 
>>> indicator is lighting up, so it should be activated. (those are turned 
>>> on and of together)
>>>       
>> Does "lsmod" show the ipw2200 driver as being loaded?  That's required
>> for that card.  If it's not loaded, try "modprobe ipw2200", then see if
>> "ifconfig -a" shows a "wlan0" entry (the name for the wireless card).
>>     
>
> And you probably need to locate the firmware and install that in the
> /lib/firmware directory.
>
> There are RPMS for the firmware or you can pull the firmware from the
> sourceforge site.  (actually they link you to the site that has it.)
>
>   
I think all is installed, but in the /var/log Messages I can see the 
following, looks like something goes wrong.

 
Sep 22 22:23:33 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Sep 22 22:23:33 localhost kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Sep 22 22:23:33 localhost kernel: b44.c:v0.95 (Aug 3, 2004)
Sep 22 22:23:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] 
enabled at IRQ 9
Sep 22 22:23:33 localhost kernel: PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered
Sep 22 22:23:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> 
Link [LNKC] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
Sep 22 22:23:33 localhost kernel: eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT 
Ethernet 00:12:3f:dc:2b:28
Sep 22 22:23:33 localhost kernel: e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 
3.4.8-k2-NAPI
Sep 22 22:23:33 localhost kernel: e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel 
Corporation
Sep 22 22:23:33 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 
2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.0
Sep 22 22:23:33 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel 
Corporation
Sep 22 22:23:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:03.0[A] -> 
Link [LNKB] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 
2915ABG Network Connection
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: 
Reason -2
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 
0xFFFFFFFE
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: ipw2200: failed to register network device
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 
0000:03:03.0 disabled
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: ipw2200: probe of 0000:03:03.0 failed 
with error -5
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `'
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1e.2[A] -> 
Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 
49518 usecs
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: intel8x0: clocking to 48000
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1e.3[B] -> 
Link [LNKB] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: MC'97 1 converters and GPIO not ready 
(0xff00)
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: hw_random: cannot enable RNG, aborting
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 
evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI 
ROOT HID fail=0x5
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> 
Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host 
Controller
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
Sep 22 22:23:34 localhost kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus 
registered, assigned bus


Does anyone have any suggestions of what it could be?

THT