i have a dell inspiron 9300 which includes an intel 2200. i put ubuntu 5.10 on there. it didn't see the wireless card. only networking devices were lo, eth0 and sit0.

this is what i've done so far:
I downloaded the latest ipw2200-fw: 2.3, ieee80211: 1.1.6 package, and ipw2200 package: 1.0.8
uncompressed each archive.
copied firmware files (.fw) to 'usr/lib/hotplug/firmware'
ran' make', then 'sudo make install' on ieee80211 and ipw2200.
compiled without errors. the ipw2200 install concluded by reminding me to put firmware files in the 'usr/lib/hotplug/firmware' directory. i'm assuming that's normal.)

when i try 'sudo modprobe ipw2200' i get this:


bosque00@charlotte:~/Desktop/ieee80211-1.1.6$ sudo modprobe ipw2200
FATAL: Error inserting ipw2200 (/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)



dmesg output (pertaining to relevant modules, full dmesg in next post):

[4295713.453000] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[4295713.493000] ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
[4295713.494000] ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
[4295713.494000] ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
[4295713.494000] ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
[4295713.494000] ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
[4295713.494000] ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
[4295713.494000] ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
[4295713.494000] ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
[4295713.531000] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.0.3
[4295713.531000] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[4295713.536000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
[4295713.537000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
[4295713.537000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
[4295713.537000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
[4295713.537000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
[4295713.537000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
[4295713.537000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_txb_free
[4295713.537000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
[4295713.537000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
[4295713.537000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
[4295713.537000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
[4295713.537000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
[4295713.537000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol escape_essid
[4295713.538000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx
[4295713.538000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
[4295713.538000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
[4295713.538000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
[4296052.623000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
[4296052.623000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
[4296052.623000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
[4296052.624000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
[4296052.624000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
[4296052.624000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
[4296052.624000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_txb_free
[4296052.624000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
[4296052.624000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
[4296052.624000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
[4296052.624000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
[4296052.624000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
[4296052.624000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol escape_essid
[4296052.624000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx
[4296052.625000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
[4296052.625000] ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
[4296052.625000] ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt

the problem seemed to be with some files from the older version of the 80211 hanging around. after enough locates and make cleans it loads.

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now i can get the modules to load (ipw2200 and as a result ipw2200 and the firmware), but it still doesn't see any wireless hardware. i only get eth0.

the 2200 is invisible. but works fine if i boot in windows.

dmesg contains this clue:

bosque00@charlotte:~$ dmesg | grep ieee8
[4294876.788000] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[4294876.855000] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.1.6
[4294876.855000] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
bosque00@charlotte:~$ dmesg | grep ipw
[4294876.993000] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.8
[4294876.993000] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation