Intel ipw2200 and Slackware 10.1

feend · 02-19-2005, 08:23 PM

Hello, I have installed wireless tools 27, the 1.00 version of ipw2200 and my kernel has config_net_radio 1 (true). I am running on a dell insiron 8600 w/ the intel 2200 B,G miniPCI card. I am using 2.6.10. I can't seem to get it to work.

Code:

 
bash-3.00# lsmod 
Module Size Used by 
ipw2200 128108 0 
ieee80211 37924 1 ipw2200 
ieee80211_crypt 4936 1 ieee80211 
snd_pcm_oss 49316 0 
snd_mixer_oss 18048 1 snd_pcm_oss 
ohci_hcd 19848 0 
joydev 8256 0 
intel_agp 19740 1 
eth1394 18312 0 
uhci_hcd 30864 0 
ehci_hcd 30468 0 
b44 20356 0 
mii 4224 1 b44 
ohci1394 31748 0 
ieee1394 94904 2 eth1394,ohci1394 
pcmcia 17668 4 
yenta_socket 19456 0 
pcmcia_core 52032 2 pcmcia,yenta_socket 
evdev 7680 0 
agpgart 28712 1 intel_agp 
psmouse 20360 0

Modules look fine.

Code:

 
bash-3.00# ifconfig 
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:43:6B:36:44 
inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 
RX packets:4337 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
TX packets:3301 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
RX bytes:2445944 (2.3 Mb) TX bytes:389770 (380.6 Kb) 
Interrupt:11 
 
eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 38-4F-C0-00-27-90-64-C1-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) 
 
lo Link encap:Local Loopback 
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth1 is my wireless card. It only shows up when I ifconfig eth1 up.
the output of iwconfig is:

Code:

 
bash-3.00# iwconfig 
lo no wireless extensions. 
 
eth0 no wireless extensions. 
 
eth1 no wireless extensions.

The card works in windoz. Thanx in advance for any help,
Feend

eduardomsilva · 02-20-2005, 05:34 AM

This seems quite strange... because your interface eht1 seems to work (partially at least...)... it seems that it can't have an IP...

Try just one thing... turn off both interfaces, "ifconfig eth0/eth1 down"... and then begin just with the interface eth1... to see what happens...

Doing "ifconfig eth1 up" and "dhcpcd eth1"...

See you around!

/edu

feend · 02-20-2005, 08:33 AM

Hi,
Same thing.

Code:

eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 38-4F-C0-00-27-90-64-C1-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

I think I need to fix:

Code:

eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC

Thanx,
Feend

feend · 02-20-2005, 07:09 PM

I was not loading the firmware.

Code:

ln -s  /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware  /lib/firmware

All is well, just needed a link.

I saw the module failing to load firmware in my dmesg output. Hope this helps a Fellow Slackware user!
feend