ipw2200 problem...

Ben Bergen ben.bergen at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 19:54:21 UTC 2007


Hi,

I just installed Fedora 7 and I can't get my ipw2200 wireless nic card
to work.  It looks like the firmware, module, etc... is getting
loaded.  One thing that is troubling is that the little wlan light
does not come on when I add the ipw2200 module.  The laptop is an IBM
Thinkpad x40.  I don't think that there is anything wrong with the
hardware because this laptop was working fine with Ubuntu Feisty.
Firmware is ipw2200-firmware-3.0-9.  Here is output from dmesg, and
iwconfig:

dmesg:
====
ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno at linux.intel.com>
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0kmprq
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: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)

iwconfig:
=====
lo        no wireless extensions.

irda0     no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      unassociated  ESSID:"berrynet"  Nickname:"bbk.lanl.gov"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=8/0
          Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

sit0      no wireless extensions.

-- 
   Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Karl Bergen, M.Sc.
   CCS-2 Computational Physics and Methods
   Los Alamos National Laboratory
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