Hi Tim,
I've had Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG-based 802.11g wlan working for quite
a while on 2.6.15 and now 2.6.16 quite nicely. I'm running debian on a
Sony Vaio laptop, and here's what I did to get things working. I'm not
familiar with Fedora, but hopefully something in here might be helpful
for you.
**** Device: output of lspci -v:
natasha:/lib/modules# ls -las /lib/firmware/0000:06:0b.0 Network
controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2753
**** Driver version I'm using: 1.0.8
The info at
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/index.php
and
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
allows you to download the correct version of firmware for the driver
you're using.
For 2.6.15 and 2.6.16, the included drivers will need to use version 2.4
of the firmware.
An lsmod on my laptop shows the ipw2200 module has been automatically
loaded for me.
**** Output of ls -las /lib/firmware
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 12 12:57 .
8 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 8192 May 19 20:54 ..
12 -rwxrwxr-x 1 mary mary 12007 Aug 11 2005 LICENSE
8 -rw-r--r-- 1 mary users 6472 Aug 11 2005 ipw-2.4-boot.fw
172 -rw-r--r-- 1 mary users 168344 Aug 11 2005 ipw-2.4-bss.fw
16 -rw-r--r-- 1 mary users 16334 Aug 11 2005 ipw-2.4-bss_ucode.fw
164 -rw-r--r-- 1 mary users 162884 Aug 11 2005 ipw-2.4-ibss.fw
16 -rw-r--r-- 1 mary users 16312 Aug 11 2005 ipw-2.4-ibss_ucode.fw
172 -rw-r--r-- 1 mary users 168344 Aug 11 2005 ipw-2.4-sniffer.fw
16 -rw-r--r-- 1 mary users 16344 Aug 11 2005 ipw-2.4-sniffer_ucode.fw
**** To then actually get it working:
I installed the debian wireless-tools package. This contains the
iwconfig tool, amongst other things. iwconfig shows me:
eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:<my essid>
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: <MAC address
of my AP>
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:<my WEP key> Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=82/100 Signal level=-47 dBm Noise level=-86 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
To configure this interface, you can use iwconfig directly to set the
parameters (good to do when you're seeing if things are working), or set
up /etc/network/interfaces to do it. This is what I have:
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless-essid <my essid>
wireless-key <my WEP key>
I only set up my essid and the wep key, the defaults are fine for my
purposes. If you have WEP and it's not configured properly, you get a
system that looks like everything came up nicely but then stares at you.
If your network works for you at least some of the time, this doesn't
seem to be your problem ..
Finally: if all of this was rather obvious, another nice aspect I had to
deal with until yesterday was udev rather capriciously assigning my
network interfaces. This meant that sometimes it would assign eth1, and
/etc/network/interfaces would work, but other times it would assign the
wireless to eth2. An ifconfig should show you who got what interface.
You can work around this, although an upgrade a little while back seems
to have eliminated this issue.
Hope some of this was helpful.
cheers,
Mary Cudmore.
Tim Lloyd wrote:
Hi gang,
I have installed fc5 on my new laptop and I am having no end of bother
getting the wireless connection going.
I have downloaded the firmware for my wireless card and installed it:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tim]# ls /lib/firmware/
ipw2200-2.4-LICENSE ipw2200-sniffer.fw ipw-2.4-ibss.fw
ipw2200-3.0-LICENSE ipw-2.4-boot.fw ipw-2.4-ibss_ucode.fw
ipw2200-bss.fw ipw-2.4-bss.fw ipw-2.4-sniffer.fw
ipw2200-ibss.fw ipw-2.4-bss_ucode.fw ipw-2.4-sniffer_ucode.fw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tim]# /sbin/modprobe -l ipw*
/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/ipw.ko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tim]#
I added the connection as eth1 in network config and sometimes I can
activate it, but most times it sits and stares at me. Has anyone any
suggestions on how to activate the wireless connection? Sorry I am a
bit vague but I am stilll ramping up on linux.
On a related topic I tried the live breezy cd on the laptop and X
wouldn't start.
Is anyone running dapper with a 2915ABG Intel wireless card/nx8220
laptop? I haven't dlled DD yet but if I get some positive feedback I
will do.
Ta
Tim
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