Ipw2200 problem in Fedora 8

[Eason Mai]

Hi all,
 
I use Fedora 8 under my laptop Thinkpad x40, kernel vesion: 2.6.24.4-64.fc8. But I have a
problem with the wireless card when I run Fedora 8, actually the wireless card can work
well under WinXP. When I boot my laptop under Fedora 8, it always show me in the log
file:
 
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:02.0 disabled
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5
 
Does any idea to fix such problem? Thanks.
 
 
Eason

[Miguel Ángel Pérez]

You need the firmware for you card. You can add atrpm repo to your yum
configuration or grab it directly from the web[1]
Take care when adding atrpms to your list of repos, it may conflict with
livna if you already has it.

You can also go to the ipw2200 project's page, grab the firmware and unpack
it to /lib/firmware [2]

[1] http://www.atrpms.net/dist/common/ipw2200-firmware
[2] http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php

Regards.

2008/4/23 Eason Mai <mricheng(a)hotmail.com&gt;:

>  Hi all,
>
>  I use Fedora 8 under my laptop Thinkpad x40, kernel vesion:
>  2.6.24.4-64.fc8. But I have a problem with the wireless card when I run
>  Fedora 8, actually the wireless card can work well under WinXP. When I boot
>  my laptop under Fedora 8, it always show me in the log file:
>
>  ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
>  ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
>  ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
>  ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
>  ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
>  ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
>  ipw2200: failed to register network device
>  ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:02.0 disabled
>  ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5
>
>  Does any idea to fix such problem? Thanks.
>
>
>  Eason
>
>
>
>
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[Adalbert Prokop]

Eason Mai schrieb am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008:

>  ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
>  ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
>  ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
>  ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
>  ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
>  ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
>  ipw2200: failed to register network device
>  ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:02.0 disabled
>  ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5 
You did not install the firmware. A simple

yum install ipw2200-firmware

should fix the problem.

-- 
bye,
Adalbert

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