Hi guys,

This problem has been troubling me for the past 5 days and I'm still getting nowhere,

I need the Intel 2200BG wireless card to be reccognized by my Fedora Core 6 on an i686 architecture ( school project promoting linux )

OS: Fedore Core 6
Kernel: 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6

This is what I have done so far,

Read the README files, as instructed I upgraded the IEEE80211 subsystem before proceeding to install the drivers for the wireless card. I have managed to install the IEEE80211 subsystem. I checked the autoconf.h and the kernel's .config and removed anything pointing to an older version of the IEEE80211. I also removed anything related to IEEE80211 in Module.symvers as this was erroring during "make" of the IEEE80211 subsystem.

The problem lies when trying to compile the ipw2200 driver. I get the following errors:

Building modules. stage 2.
MODPOST

WARNING: "ALLOC_IEEE80211" UNDEFINED!
WARNING: "FREE_IEEE80211" UNDEFINED"
WARNING: "IEEE80211_WX_GET_ENCODE" UNDEFINED!
WARNING: "IEEE80211_WX_SET_ENCODE" UNDEFINED!
WARNING: "IEEE80211_WX_GET_SCAN" UNDEFINED!
WARNING: "IEEE80211_WX_GET_ENCODEEXT" UNDEFINED!
WARNING: "IEEE80211_WX_SET_ENCODEEXT" UNDEFINED!
WARNING: "IEEE80211_RX" UNDEFINED!
WARNING: "IEEE80211_RX_MGT" UNDEFINED!
WARNING: "ESCAPE_ESSID" UNDEFINED!
WARNING: "IEEE80211_TXB_FREE" UNDEFINED!
make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686

when i try modprobe ipw2200 the modules gets loaded, however the wireless card is not listed under interfaces in neat.

The driver's firmware is loaded in /lib/firmware

These are the versions I am using:

IEEE80211-1.2.16
ipw2200-1.2.0
ipw2200-fw-3.0

Sidenote: This distro has the ieee80211 and ieee80211_crypt and ipw2200, however when I load these with modprobe they get loaded with no problem, but the device still does not get recognized by linux.

I really need to get this working... any help would be appreciated. If you need more information just ask!!

Thanks
DW

Fixed it! Do not try to get this card to work in VMware, it just wont happen I installed directly on the laptop, copied firmware v3.0 to /lib/firmware and it worked flawlessly!