Yay!! I finally got the Intel 2200 b/g Pro wireless card working in Fedora Core 4 with researching through several tutorials, but none of them really helped step by step, so I'll give it a shot for you folks who don't have it working...

My setup...
OS: Fedora Core 4
Linux Kernel: 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
Laptop: Dell Inspiron 6000

I've been trying on and off for months to get this working so I just put fedora core 4 back onto my laptop yesterday and got it working today. After I installed I DID NOT run up2date to update everything.

1. You need to download 3 files: ipw2200-1.0.8.tgz, ipw2200-fw-2.4.tgz, and ieee80211-1.1.6.tgz. You can get these from:

ipw2200.sf.net (ipw2200-1.0.8.tgz)
ipw2200.sf.net/firmware.php (pw2200-fw-2.4.tgz)
ieee80211.sf.net (ieee80211-1.1.6.tgz).

2. Everything downloads to the desktop, by default. So I just went to the desktop and on each file you download, right-click and go to "extract here"

3. Next, you are going to have to remove all the old ieee files and the ipw2200 drivers. To do so, open up terminal and type this:

#cd /Desktop/ieee80211-1.1.6.tgz_FILES/ieee80211-1.1.6
#./remove-old ***That's a period in front of the / so Period/remove-old***

Also,

#cd /Desktop/ipw2200-1.0.8.tgz_FILES/ipw2200-1.0.8/
#./remove-old

4. Now we're ready to install these new drivers. I don't think order matters but I installed ieee first then the ipw2200 driver..

#cd /Desktop/ieee80211-1.1.6.tgz_FILES/ieee80211-1.1.6
#make
#make install

#cd /Desktop/ipw2200-1.0.8.tgz_FILES/ipw2200-1.0.8/
#make
#make install
#modprobe ipw2200

5. That's it for installing the drivers! Now we need to copy the firmware into the appropiate directory. I did it the noob'y way, Click on Applications --> System Tools --> File Browser, locate your Desktop and then open up the firmware folder. Copy ALL of those files in that folder and then in the Location Bar type in /lib/firmware and paste it all into that.

6. This may not be necessary, but for safe measures, restart your computer. When you're back in, go to Applications --> System Tools --> Network Device Tools.
-Click on Configure
-Click on New
-on the left under "Device Type", click on Wireless and then Forward
-Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (eth1) should be there
-Click Forward, and then just take that tutorial all the way through based on your own network settings.

That's IT...Good Luck Folks, this is the way I got mine working, hopefully you will have the same luck...

This site is helpful for getting ipw2200 working on Fedora Core. ipw2200 modules have been included in all the FC4 kernels, so all you need to do is install the firmware.

I can install everything and the card sees the acess point



eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"DBCMAIN" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:30:BD:C3:B7:28
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption key:3137-3861-3366-6332-3500-0000-00 Security modepen
Power Managementff
Link Quality=90/100 Signal level=-39 dBm Noise level=-83 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


but when i try to activate it says it cant determine IP address.


[root@localhost ~]# dmesg | grep ipw
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.8
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: Unknown notification: subtype=40,flags=0xa0,size=40
[root@localhost ~]# dmesg | grep ieee80211
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.1.6
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>


[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/lsmod | grep ipw
ipw2200 113484 0
ieee80211 33608 1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt 8964 2 ipw2200,ieee80211

any suggestion on what to do would be greatly appreciated

I am running Fedora Core 4 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4

It seems like your firmware didn't load ...

here are the modules loaded when I issue modprobe ipw2200 on Dell latitude

thanks for the reply.

I went ahead the other day and went the Ndiswrapper route and it works great.

How to make it work with WPA encryption?

check out the package called wpa_supplicant

im running slackware 10.2, why can't the firmware load? i did all I needed to do in the Kernel, should i download a differente version of the firmware?

Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.8
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw-2.4-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:01.0 failed with error -5

Just a note that w/FC4, I had no luck with the most recent ieee80211-1.1.7 version. Couldn't even make it. 1.1.6 worked no problem though. Same for the most recent build of ipw2200-1.0.9, couldn't even compile it, but 1.0.8 works fine.

Great Tutorial!

FC4 I have driver 1.0.10 and ieee 1.0.8
compiled and installed fine, but I keep getting:
firmware error detected. restarting
sysfs 'error' log captured
firmware error detected. Restarting.
sysfs 'error' log already exists
failed to send scan_abort: command timed out

using firmware 2.4 from the site and I tried the copy from freshrpms their noarch.rpm version of it. Both give same error.

Hi Ive got the driver that comes with the kernel of the latest fedora core kernel and installed the firmware for it along with the ieee thing. Everything installed perfectly and say it working fine but when enabling the card i get the following

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

Then it goes ahead and grabs an ip from the network but still wont let me do anything. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Thanks for the step-by-step, it worked great and I almost understand whats going on. As my user-name suggests I am new to Linux.

Fedora 4
2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
Toshiba Satallite, Centrino 1.6 GHz
Intel Pro 2200 wireless

I followed your step-by-step and everything worked fine until the part after going into Network Device Control and Configuring. The problem is that after clicking on Wireless there is still no device options, just blank. However, if I click on Ethernet then I can choose my wireless card, weird.

Any suggestions (other than switching back to Windows) would be much appreciated.

thanks

FANTASTIC! Worked through my first Linux problem, what a nightmare. Finally got my Intel 2200 b/g wireless working.

Toshiba Satellite A55 326
Centrino 1.6 GHz
Fedora Core 4
2.6.11-1.1369_FC4

The driver that came with the install was fine.
Just downloaded firmware version 2.2 for the Intel 2200 and extracted contents into /root/lib/firmware. Next, jumped into the Network Device Control GUI and added new wireless device. Awsome.

like seemingly everyone else w/ a Dell inspiron 6000 trying to run FC4, I am having wifi issues.

I have already intalled some drivers and firmware, however, I'm not sure if they are the correct ones and don't know how to determine this. I willl look at the instructions in the thread, however right now I have a bigger problem.

The Network Device Control is completely hosed. If I try to "configure" anything, it consumes all the ram, all the virtual memory and chugs for an hour (literally) to bring up the config window. It can spend another hour to make a few mouse clicks to switch from eth1 to eth0 ( so I can use the wire connection).

I have looked at Fedora 4 Unleashed book to try to find a way around this, but Unleashed is pretty useless for me.

Any ideas (short of reinstallation)?????

I think the problem may be beacuase I accidently put the same name in the HOST and SSID fields by accident. However, I can't find the file that contains this information to delete one or both values.

Thanks,
mike b