[ltp] t43 ipw2200 wireless

[Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV]

On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 23:05 +0200, 20100 p wrote:

> 
> lsmod gives :
> ========
> ...
> ipw2200               188424  0
> ieee80211              52100  1 ipw2200
> ieee80211_crypt         6340  2 ipw2200,ieee80211

> ========
> 
> iwconfig :
> ========
> $ sudo iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> sit0      no wireless extensions.
> $ 
> =========

> I have an X41 and I use Debian sid, with 2.6.12 (recompiled myself)
> and ipw2200 module from contrib debian package with latest firmware.
> The Wireless activation led is not lit, and I do not know how to
> activate/deactivate the wireless card. I installed tpb and with the
> out of the box configuration Fn-F5 just switch bluetooth on/off.
> Any hint on what to do now ?

Still sounds like the firmware isn't getting loaded.  Check your dmesg
log when you insert the ipw2200 module.  If I move the firmware to the
wrong place on my system, the driver still loads, but it (of course)
doesn't work, and I see the same stuff you describe above.  I *also* see
this in the dmesg log:

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.0
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG 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 0000:01:05.0 failed with error -5

Until you check that out, you can't rule out that the firmware files you
downloaded just are in the wrong place.

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