Hi, new user to FC4 installed dual boot XP and FC4.

I cannot seem to activate the Intel Pro/Wireless 2915ABG

At the current state of my machine here are the steps that I have done.
> 1. installed liva rpm source
> 2. ran yum update ipw2200-firmware (to try and update the firmware)
> result: Could not find update match for ipw2200-firmware, No Packages
> marked
> for Update/Obsoletion
> 3. ran dmesg
> result:

pw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:03:03.0 failed with error -5
snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `'

Im not technical and would appreciate being stepped through the process in dummy terms!

Thanks,
Alain

First off did you compile the ipw2200 driver or are you using the one in the kernel?

If it is the one in the kernel :
which kernel? open a terminal and type "uname -r"

In a nutshell you are missing the firmware from : http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
Simply download it then unpack it.
And copy it to /lib/firmware
Then reboot and in theory the errors should go away.

The real big question is what version you need? but I would need to know which version of ipw2200 you have.