Intel 2200BG on Suse 10.0 OSS

ebayer · 01-10-2006, 02:28 PM

Hi there
I freshly installed Suse 10.0 OSS and altought I can see my Intel 2200 BG card in Yast I cannot make the wireless work. I have wireless-tools istalled by default so I will share you ifconfig iwconfig and dmsg results from my terminal. I also tried modprobe ieee80211 and modprobe ipw2200 and got no msg so I assume that both modules loaded correctly. Also be aware that I am a very newbie so please tell me the exact istructions and websites for dowload. Thanks in advance.

Code:

linux:/ # ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:C0:9F:B0:B7:AC
          inet addr:192.168.2.6  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:9fff:feb0:b7ac/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1418 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1459 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1270500 (1.2 Mb)  TX bytes:246776 (240.9 Kb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:927 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:927 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:69121 (67.5 Kb)  TX bytes:69121 (67.5 Kb)

Code:

linux:/ # iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

Code:

linux:/ # dmesg | grep ieee
ieee80211_crypt: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.0.3
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[0800285608080808]

Code:

linux:/ # dmesg | grep ipw
ipw2200: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw-2.3-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:06:04.0 failed with error -5

Aurin · 01-10-2006, 03:07 PM

The "no wireless extensions" message from iwconfig implies that the kernel you are using doesn't include wireless extensions. I think your only option is to compile/recompile (last time I checked it wasn't even possible to compile wireless extensions as a module) your kernel with wireless extensions enabled.

ebayer · 01-10-2006, 04:30 PM

I said I am a newbie. Please send me detailed instructions if you think I should recompile the kernel.

ebayer · 01-10-2006, 04:42 PM

Ooops found the solution to the problem.
I downloaded ipw2200 firmware from "ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php". Extracted the tgz file into a temporary directory. I copied all the files inside this temporary dir to /lib/firmware as root. Then I reloaded the modules by typing

Code:

modprobe ieee80211

and then type

Code:

modprobe ipw2200

and restarted the system. Voila! It worked. Thanks to everybody that posted. See ya

daTerminehtor · 01-16-2006, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ebayer

Ooops found the solution to the problem.
I downloaded ipw2200 firmware from "ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php". Extracted the tgz file into a temporary directory. I copied all the files inside this temporary dir to /lib/firmware as root. Then I reloaded the modules by typing

Code:

modprobe ieee80211

and then type

Code:

modprobe ipw2200

and restarted the system. Voila! It worked. Thanks to everybody that posted. See ya

Just today I rec'd my wireless router (which I piggyback of my wired router). Got the intel nic up and running under xp pro (my lappie is a dual boot).

I too found the nic under Yast, but not under the terminal commands (which I found very useful, thanks.)

I've grabbed the latest firmwire.
However, here... http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...reless_install
its suggest I also update the kernel (which, doesn't make sense as I only installed - adn fully updated 10. OSS 2 days ago). You said yours went fine after just installing the firmwire? This makes sense, as Yast can see the card.

As I too am a n00b to linux (though eager)... can you tell me how you extracted the files to root? I imagine I bring up the terminal, login as root, cd over to the directory where the tar is... there I'm stuck.

How to extract and copy over.

Could you lend a hand please?

ebayer · 01-17-2006, 08:32 AM

I did not want to upgrade the kernel this time because I had some major wireless problems after the update. It just worked fine with me without the kernel update but remember it is just for me

Altough I dont see any reasons it is not for you

)

To untar this file:
I am sure this is not the best solution but it is mine

create a temporary dir with

Code:

mkdir /path of dir/temp

copy the downloaded file to this temporary directory with

Code:

cp /path of tgz/ipw2200-fw-2.3.tgz /path of temp/temp/

cd into the temporary directory
then untar the archive by using command tar (for more info type tar --help or man tar)

Code:

tar xvf ipw2200-fw-2.3.tgz

By typing ls you can confirm the firmware files are there
Then as root cp all the files to the /lib/firmware by

Code:

cp /path of temp/temp/*.* /lib/firmware/

Again I think there can be less complex solutions so please check the forums for untar as root