intell pro 2200 wireless

[Michael Brandt]

2005/9/14, Shawn Guillemette <shawn at guillemette.org>:
> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 20:46 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am Di, den 13.09.2005 schrieb Shawn Guillemette um 20:37:
> >
> > > IM attempting to get my wireless intel pro 2200 card workign on my Dell
> > > Inspiron laptop.
> > >
> > > I see the following in my dmesg
> > >
> > >
> > > ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
> > > ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.0.3
> > > ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation
> > > <jketreno at linux.intel.com>
> > > ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
> > > ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
> > >
> > >
> > > Im thinking i might have it realy close to working. From what i
> > > understand I now need to compile the kernel with support for ARC4 cipher
> > > algorithm.
> >
> > You shouldn't need to recompile the kernel.  Did you install the
> > required firmware? Fedora Core does not ship it due to licensing.
> >
> > http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/ipw2200-firmware-2.2-0.lvn.2.4.noarch.rpm
> >
> > > Shawn
> >
> > Alexander
> >
> 
> I tried to install the rpm that you pointed me at.. and this was
> returned..
> 
> Package not Found
> 
> The following packages could not be found on your system. Installation
> cannot continue untill it is installed.
> 
> Unlocatable package. = KERNEL
> required by = (ipw2200-firmware','2.2','0.lvn.2.4')
> 
> 
> Im going to google it and see what i can come up with ..

You can try to install the firmware files manually. Go to
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php . The right version for
FC4 should be 'Versions v0.19-v1.0.3: v0.19-1.0.3 firmware'. Download
it and do the following as root:

mv ipw2200-fw-2.2.tgz /lib/firmware
cd /lib/firmware
tar -xzvf ipw2200-fw-2.2.tgz

You could also try the 'Versions v1.0.4 and newer: v1.0.4-current firmware'.

After rebooting wireless should work.

Michael