Chris, thanks you.
I was using exaclty your setting and the wireless networking
worked. It stopped when I upgraded to 770. The problem was
a a failure to load the firmware. With the latest rmp,
ipw2200-firmware-2.2-5.at
the firmware seems to load OK. The problem now is the format of the
modules:
Mar 11 10:04:48 antoy modprobe: WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211
(/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC3/updates/drivers/net/wireless/ipw/ieee80211.ko): Invalid
module format
Mar 11 10:04:48 antoy modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting ipw2200
(/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC3/updates/drivers/net/wireless/ipw/ipw2200.ko): Invalid
module format
These are the rmps I installed
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_FC3-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at
ipw2200-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at
There are many kmdl's. I do not know how to choose
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.atsmp-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at.x86_64.rpm
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at.x86_64.rpm
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at.x86_64.rpm
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_FC3-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at.x86_64.rpm
Thanks again,
Sergio
Chris writes:
Sergio Antoy wrote:
| [root@antoy ~]# lspci
| 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller
(rev 03)
| 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller
(rev 03)
| 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
| 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
| 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
| 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 03)
| 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
| 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge
(rev 03)
| 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller
(rev 03)
| 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus
Controller (rev 03)
| 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
| 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97
Modem Controller (rev 03)
| 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M9+ 5C61
[Radeon Mobility 9200 (AGP)] (rev 01)
| 02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
| 02:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000
OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller
| 02:04.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments
PCI7420/PCI7620 Dual Socket CardBus and Smart Card Cont. w/ 1394a-2000
OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Cont. an
| 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB)
Ethernet Controller (rev 83)
| 02:0b.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
| [root@antoy ~]#
|
| Thank you for your reply,
| Sergio
|
I have the same rev card in a T-42 thinkpad running FC-3. I've never
used the rpms, ive always just used the packages from
ipw2200.sf.net.
Here is what I do, it may be worth a shot to see if this still fails:
Download the module package from the
ipw2200.sf.net site, and unpack the
package:
# zcat ipw2200-1.0.1.tgz | tar xvf -
Step into the ipw2200-1.0.1 directory and run:
# make
# make install
If this goes well you should be good to go, then:
Download the matching firmware package for this build, ipw2200-fw-2.2.tgz
Unpack the package into /lib/firmware
# zcat ipw2200-fw-2.2.tgz | tar xvf - -C /lib/firmware
Once you are done with that you should be able to modprobe ipw2200 into
the kernel:
# modprobe ipw2200
Once this is done the device should be registerd, check with 'dmesg'
You should be able to scan at this point as mentioned earlier...
If this works configure the device in /etc/modprobe.conf :
alias ethX ipw2200
Let me know how this goes...
- --chris
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