Hi Kevin, A little bit of poking around led me to this: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/#issues
The first issue on the page seems relevant - it would seem that the hotplug timeout is too low.
I would have thought that you'd be able to load the firmware even with the transmitter switch off, but I may be wrong.
Cheers, Matt Kevin Fitzgerald wrote:
Hi All Just got a new laptop with wireless inbuilt and I realised I have never tried setting up wireless before so I may need sme guidance please. dmesg is finding the card (see Below) but I'm getting errors. I tried iwconfig but no luck yet. Can anyone shed me a little light on what to look for next Kev Fedora core 4 HP Pavillion zt3000 dmesg section -------------------------------------------------------- 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> Link [C0C3] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 eth0: RTL-8139C+ at 0xe0826000, 00:0f:b0:40:ce:b6, IRQ 10 ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.0 ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0C5] enabled at IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> Link [C0C5] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2 ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE ipw2200: failed to register network device ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> Link [C0C3] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49447 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [C0C3] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.6 to 64 hw_random: RNG not detected
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