IPW2200 + IEEE80211 module mess
 

Hi,

I got a DELL Latitude 610 02 Laptop with Debian Sid and kernel 2.6.16.18 on it.
Everything worked fine so far except the wireless network interface.

lspci :
>
Network Controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
>

The ieee80211 and ipw2200 were comiled as module in the kernel.

As the modules didn't seem to work I downloaded (via apt-get source) the ieee80211 and ipw2200 modules.
I managed to compile the ipw2200 and ieee80211 modules from source, downloaded the firmware and copied it into /lib/firmware.
the iwconfig listed the wireless interface and I was able to bring it up through ifconfig.

The network connection was OK. The only thing that did not work was the led of the wireless interface on my laptop. Here is where my problem starts:

I read that I just got to add the line:
"options ipw2200 led=1"

then I have to run update-modules.

From that point I've been unable to insert ipw2200 module anymore.....

I got all type of error messages when trying to modprobe the module. I tried then install it through apt-get install ipw2200-source and ieee80211-source, comiled and installed them again the result's the same.

I even tried to use module-assistant I choosed the modules above installed them. It looked to be OK since it created the ieee80211-2.6.16.18 & ipw2200-2.6.16.18 packages.
After that I couldn't restart my system, I got Kernel Panic error.


Does anyone have any suggestion how could I make it work again?

(Now I'm trying to compile a newer kernel 2.6.16.20...)

Thank you!

Zahoo