I had to use firmware 2.2 with my 2915ABG because of the Driver version used in FC4. It is the firmware version that corresponds to the stable driver 1.0.0 that I believe is used in FC4. (I have the same kernel and it is the stock version that comes down from the update site.)

Cheers,

DH

i pulled ipw2200-firmware-2.2-3.noarch.rpm and gave it a go. the only difference is that i get a 'firmware error, reloading...' message now before what i had above. :-P

you are using the 80211 modules from the standard kernel, right?

thanks

b

Reading what you wrote I saw that you're using firmware
ipw2200-firmware-2.4-1 , I used this ipw2200-fw-2.4.tgz , I hope this helps you. And also what pc/laptop do u have?

Try not using the rpm....go to the site posted in my previous post and use the tar.gz files and move the contents to the /lib/firmware directory. I am using the standard module ipw2200 and this should be equiv to ver 1.0.0 of the driver.

ok, i removed the firmware rpm and made sure /lib/firmware was clean. i then proceeded to try the last three versions of the firmware from the ipw2200 project. here are my results:

2.2 firmware
=============

# ifup eth1
Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.

Determining IP information for eth1...ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
failed; no link present. Check cable?

# lsmod |egrep "(eee|ipw)"
ieee80211_crypt_wep 5057 1
ipw2200 77133 0
ieee80211 24389 1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt 9413 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211


2.3
===========

# ifup eth1
ipw2200 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

2.4 firmware
============

# ifup eth1
ipw2200 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

# iwconfig eth1
eth1 No such device

# lsmod |egrep "(eee|ipw)"
ipw2200 77133 0
ieee80211 24389 1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt 9413 1 ieee80211 <-- wep stuff didn't load!

in all cases here are the various settings i have on the machine (ibm t42p with atheros card replaced with shiny new intel 2200BG):

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:12:f0:5d:73:d0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=home
CHANNEL=4
MODE=Managed
RATE=Auto

# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
alias eth0 e1000
alias eth1 ipw2200
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0

...with the firmware for each test being limited to only that version:

# ls /lib/firmware/
BCM2033-FW.bin ipw-2.4-bss.fw ipw-2.4-sniffer.fw
BCM2033-MD.hex ipw-2.4-bss_ucode.fw ipw-2.4-sniffer_ucode.fw
BCM-LEGAL.txt ipw-2.4-ibss.fw LICENSE
ipw-2.4-boot.fw ipw-2.4-ibss_ucode.fw

there is one more thing and i think it is associated with the wireless tools:

$ iwlist eth1 scanning
Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 18
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 17.
Some things may be broken...

$ rpm -qa |grep wireless
wireless-tools-28-0.pre4.3

what are others running?

thanks

b

what is the model and specs of the laptop?

ibm t42p

# cat meminfo
MemTotal: 2074636 kB
MemFree: 1595832 kB

# cat cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 598.157
cache size : 2048 KB

# cat iomem |grep -i intel
c0000800-c00008ff : Intel 82801DB-ICH4
c0000c00-c0000dff : Intel 82801DB-ICH4

# cat ioports |grep -i intel
18c0-18ff : Intel 82801DB-ICH4
1c00-1cff : Intel 82801DB-ICH4
2000-207f : Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem
2400-24ff : Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem

# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 72G 47G 22G 69% /
/dev/hda1 101M 9.4M 86M 10% /boot
none 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm

i replaced the atheros card with an intel 2200 BG (ergo this issue ;o)

thanks

b

that wasn't quite what I was looking for, perhaps the model name and the specs listed from the manufacturer. Also you say that you replaced the wireless, I am assuming that this is using the pcmcia slot?

Cheers,

DH

http://www5.pc.ibm.com/us/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/_2373KXU

no, i replaced the mini-pci card that the t42p comes installed with.

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/#issues

see if anything here helps

also this maybe, or try googling I found lots on your laptop with this card and linux.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_PRO/Wireless_2200BG_Mini-PCI_Adapter

hmmm... that is where i started. looks i have come full circle.

what version of wireless-tools are you using? are you using the ieee80211 modules from the default kernel build?

thanks

b

i'm not using wireless tools at all. They are not necessary to have this work.

My wireless card was detected initially, but wouldn't work. It said it couldn't connect and a cable was unplugged. Then I realized that I needed the firmware. I chose the firmware for the stable version of the driver, as I have the newest FC4 kernel and it already had the ipw module. So I loaded the firmware to /lib/firmware after uncompressing it (making sure that the license file went too). I simply modprobe -r ipw2200 then modprobe ipw2200 and I was able to setup the wireless. Now, you have to specify an ip address and subnet mask if you don't have a DHCP server in the network, which I don't. After that I had working wireless.

Cheers,

DH

how are you setting the wireless paramters (channel, etc.?) i thought iwconfig was necessary for that...?

thanks

b