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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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@hotmail.com>:



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.





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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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Hi,

When I verify ipw2200-firmware, it shows me the following:

# rpm -V ipw2200-firmware-3.0-9

.......T /lib/firmware/ipw2200-bss.fw
.......T /lib/firmware/ipw2200-ibss.fw
.......T /lib/firmware/ipw2200-sniffer.fw

Any problem with ipw2200-firmware? And idea? Thanks.

Eason

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> From: adalbert.prokop@gmx.de
> To: mricheng@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Ipw2200 problem in Fedora 8
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:09:57 +0200
>
> Eason Mai schrieb am Donnerstag, 24. April 2008:
>
> Hi!
>
>> Thanks for your reply. I have checked my linux box, I have installed
>> ipw2200-firmware already.
>>
>> #rpm -qa|grep firmware|grep ipw
>> ipw2200-firmware-3.0-9
>>
>> and there are some firmware files related to ipw2200 in the
>> /lib/firmware/
>>
>> #ls /lib/firmware/ipw2200*
>> /lib/firmware/ipw2200-bss.fw /lib/firmware/ipw2200-sniffer.fw
>> /lib/firmware/ipw2200-ibss.fw
>
> That's the same I saw on the Acer 8K. :/
>
>> Any ideas to fix it? Thanks.
>
> Well, not really. The message said
>
> ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
>
> Maybe the file is not readable. Or damaged. Try
> rpm -V ipw2200-firmware-3.0-9
>
> But that's the last reasonable idea I have.
>
> --
> bye,
> Adalbert
>
> Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:27:59 +0000, Eason Mai <mricheng@hotmail.com> wrote:

> # rpm -V ipw2200-firmware-3.0-9
>
> .......T /lib/firmware/ipw2200-bss.fw
> .......T /lib/firmware/ipw2200-ibss.fw
> .......T /lib/firmware/ipw2200-sniffer.fw
>
> Any problem with ipw2200-firmware? And idea? Thanks.

'T' is mtime difference. Curious what might cause it, but immaterial.

> > ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2

Isn't -2 equal to ENOENT? It's a bad filename.

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Hi,

When I remove the ipw2200-firmware,install it again, and verify ipw2200-firmware, it show me:
#rpm -e ipw2200-firmware-3.0-9
#yum -y install ipw2200-firmware
#rpm -V ipw2200-firmware-3.0-9
(no message)

But when I reinstalled the ipw2200 module, it showed me:
#rmmod ipw2200
#modprobe ipw2200
#tail -f /var/log/messages
.....
Apr 29 10:19:58 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
Apr 29 10:19:58 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
Apr 29 10:19:58 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
Apr 29 10:19:58 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
Apr 29 10:20:08 localhost kernel: ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
Apr 29 10:20:08 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
Apr 29 10:20:08 localhost kernel: ipw2200: failed to register network device
Apr 29 10:20:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:02.0 disabled
Apr 29 10:20:08 localhost kernel: ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5
.....

And run dmesg, it shows:
#dmesg|grep ipw2200
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
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
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5

Any idea? Thanks



Eason

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> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:57:58 -0700
> From: zaitcev@redhat.com
> To: mricheng@hotmail.com
> CC: fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Ipw2200 problem in Fedora 8
>
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:27:59 +0000, Eason Mai wrote:
>
>> # rpm -V ipw2200-firmware-3.0-9
>>
>> .......T /lib/firmware/ipw2200-bss.fw
>> .......T /lib/firmware/ipw2200-ibss.fw
>> .......T /lib/firmware/ipw2200-sniffer.fw
>>
>> Any problem with ipw2200-firmware? And idea? Thanks.
>
> 'T' is mtime difference. Curious what might cause it, but immaterial.
>
>>> ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
>
> Isn't -2 equal to ENOENT? It's a bad filename.
>
> -- Pete

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