Wireless Fix for IPW 2200's on Laptops after upgrade to 2.6.17-1.2139

[ed]

My Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG required the latest firmware drivers to be
installed. (http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml).

Just follow the instructions, reboot and it will be working...

Note: You may not see the wireless indicator lit, but as soon as you
connect through Network Manager, it will light-up...

Ed

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 30/06/06, Ed Gurski  wrote:
> My Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG required the latest firmware drivers to be
> installed. (http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml).
>
> Just follow the instructions, reboot and it will be working...
>
> Note: You may not see the wireless indicator lit, but as soon as you
> connect through Network Manager, it will light-up...

Are you sure that's all necessary? I have a ipw2200 system which just
worked with the new kernel without doing any of that.

[Andrea Mastellone]

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 30/06/06, Ed Gurski  wrote:
> > My Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG required the latest firmware drivers to be
> > installed. (http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml).
> >
> > Just follow the instructions, reboot and it will be working...
> >
> > Note: You may not see the wireless indicator lit, but as soon as you
> > connect through Network Manager, it will light-up...
>
> Are you sure that's all necessary? I have a ipw2200 system which just
> worked with the new kernel without doing any of that.

The only thing to do is to upgrade the firmware version fron 2.4 to 3.0.
In the above link the drivers are upgraded, mainly to fix different bug
important in the case of the author...

Regards,

Andrea

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 30/06/06, Andrea Mastellone  wrote:
> The only thing to do is to upgrade the firmware version fron 2.4 to 3.0.
> In the above link the drivers are upgraded, mainly to fix different bug
> important in the case of the author...

Yes  - that was my experience, upgrade to version 3 of the firmware
and everything else works. None of the other stuff seems to be
necessary.

Ed - you might consider marking the other stuff as probably
unecessary, rather than risk encouraging people to do things they
don't need to.

Jonathan.

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 30/06/06, Andrea Mastellone  wrote:
> > The only thing to do is to upgrade the firmware version fron 2.4 to 3.0.
> > In the above link the drivers are upgraded, mainly to fix different bug
> > important in the case of the author...
>
> Yes  - that was my experience, upgrade to version 3 of the firmware
> and everything else works. None of the other stuff seems to be
> necessary.
>
> Ed - you might consider marking the other stuff as probably
> unecessary, rather than risk encouraging people to do things they
> don't need to.

Ed's not the author.  I have forwarded this suggestion to him.
> Jonathan.

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 30/06/06, Ed Gurski  wrote:
> > My Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG required the latest firmware drivers to be
> > installed. (http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml).
> >
> > Just follow the instructions, reboot and it will be working...
> >
> > Note: You may not see the wireless indicator lit, but as soon as you
> > connect through Network Manager, it will light-up...
>
> Are you sure that's all necessary? I have a ipw2200 system which just
> worked with the new kernel without doing any of that.

It seems to work reliably enough out of the box, but there are some useful 
patches in the latest drivers.  You can probably live without them in most 
cases, but if NetworkManager gives trouble, they are worth a try.

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Ed Gurski wrote:
> My Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG required the latest firmware drivers to be
> installed. (http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml).
>
> Just follow the instructions, reboot and it will be working...
>
> Note: You may not see the wireless indicator lit, but as soon as you
> connect through Network Manager, it will light-up...

Note that the initscripts update referred to on that page is still in 
updates-testing, not yet in updates.  Hopefully that will change soon.
> Ed

[wwp]

Hello Matthew,

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:40:07 -0400 (EDT) Matthew Saltzman  wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Ed Gurski wrote:
> > My Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG required the latest firmware drivers to be
> > installed. (http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml).
> >
> > Just follow the instructions, reboot and it will be working...
> >
> > Note: You may not see the wireless indicator lit, but as soon as you
> > connect through Network Manager, it will light-up...
>
> Note that the initscripts update referred to on that page is still in 
> updates-testing, not yet in updates.  Hopefully that will change soon.

Is it safe to update the firmware package to ipw2200-firmware 3.0-2 even if
not yet using the latest kernel? Or should both be updated at the same time?

Here:
ipw2200-firmware-3.0-1.lvn5
kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 (customized)

Regards,

[Charles Curley]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:18:53AM +0200, wwp wrote:
> Is it safe to update the firmware package to ipw2200-firmware 3.0-2 even if
> not yet using the latest kernel? Or should both be updated at the same time?
>
> Here:
> ipw2200-firmware-3.0-1.lvn5
> kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 (customized)

It is safe to have multiple versions of the firmware files all in
/lib/firmware/. I do that by manually installing them from the
tarballs from the sourceforge web site for the firmware. Whether you
can do so from the Livna RPMs I do not know.

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, wwp wrote:
> Hello Matthew,
>
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:40:07 -0400 (EDT) Matthew Saltzman  wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Ed Gurski wrote:
> > > My Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG required the latest firmware drivers to be
> > > installed. (http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml).
> > >
> > > Just follow the instructions, reboot and it will be working...
> > >
> > > Note: You may not see the wireless indicator lit, but as soon as you
> > > connect through Network Manager, it will light-up...
> >
> > Note that the initscripts update referred to on that page is still in
> > updates-testing, not yet in updates.  Hopefully that will change soon.
>
> Is it safe to update the firmware package to ipw2200-firmware 3.0-2 even if
> not yet using the latest kernel? Or should both be updated at the same time?
>
> Here:
> ipw2200-firmware-3.0-1.lvn5
> kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 (customized)

You already have the latest firmware.  ipw2200-firmware-3.0-1.lvn5 
includes both firmware versions 2.4 and 3.0, which are all that are needed 
for FC5.  The latest (still updates-testing) initscripts update is 
appropriate (indeed necessary) for kernels since 2.6.16 was first released 
for FC5.
> Regards,