ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.

kelamahim · 10-14-2011, 02:43 PM

Hi!

My wireless connection is dropping out all the time. The two balls in the right upper corner are spinning like it is trying to connect but the "Wireless Network Authentication Required" window keeps popping up no mater how many times I click to connect. I found on the internet that if you uncheck th Enable Wireless (right-clicking on the two spinning balls) and than check it again solves the problem, and it does but than after some time it drops out again.

I installed the ipw2200 module from the USB stick and when the problem started i followed this procedure (installed the ipw2200 again?)

http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200

anyway the problem is still here.

Code:

kelamahim@fujitsu:~$ dmesg | grep ipw2200
[    5.532318] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[    5.532322] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[    5.532395] ipw2200 0000:01:03.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[    5.532504] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[    5.532553] ipw2200 0000:01:03.0: firmware: requesting ipw2200-bss.fw
[    6.375419] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZR (14 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
[ 1998.467810] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.

Please help,

Miha

cynwulf · 10-15-2011, 01:14 PM

The device is failing to start due to that firmware error. Ensure the firmware is installed

Code:

apt-cache policy firmware-ipw2x00

If that returns none, install it. Then follow the guide and use modprobe to remove and reinsert the module and check dmesg again.

Brains · 10-18-2011, 12:11 AM

Two balls?
Do you have two network managers installed? Like network-manager-gnome and wicd.
Running command: dpkg --get-selections will produce a list of all installed packages.

kelamahim · 10-18-2011, 03:39 PM

Code:

kelamahim@fujitsu:~$ apt-cache policy firmware-ipw2x00
firmware-ipw2x00:
  Installed: 0.28+squeeze1
  Candidate: 0.28+squeeze1
  Version table:
 *** 0.28+squeeze1 0
        500 http://ftp.si.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/non-free i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Code:

kelamahim@fujitsu:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep network
network-manager					install
network-manager-gnome				install

Today is really horrible, I have to do the check/uncheck thing every minute! I did it two times during writing this post..

Please help,

Miha