Wireless Card Trouble ipw220

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 22:48 +0100, Paul Ward wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently using a compaq nx7010 laptop with FC5. I seem to be
> having trouble with the wirless configuration.
> I have a ipw2200 card built in, I have used livna to install the
> latest drivers but can not get fedora to use it can someone please
> help. 
> 
> ipw2200-firmware-3.0-1.lvn5
> kernel2.6.17-1.2139_FC5
> 
> ifcfg-eth1
> # Intel Corp.|PRO/Wireless LAN 2200 3B Mini PCI Adapter
> DEVICE=eth1
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> MODE=Managed
> ESSID=HOME-NET
> 
> #lspci |grep ipw
> I get nothing back
> #rmmod ipw2100
> again nothing back
> #modprobe ipw2200
> nothing
> #cat /var/log/dmesg |grep ipw
>  ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, git-1.2.2
>  ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
>  ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
>  ipw2100: eth0: Firmware 'ipw2100-1.3.fw' not available or load
> failed.
>  ipw2100: eth0: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2 
>  ipw2100: eth0: Failed to power on the adapter.
>  ipw2100: eth0: Failed to start the firmware.
>  ipw2100Error calling register_netdev.
>  ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5
> 
> #ifup eth1
> ipw2100 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying
> initialization. 
> 
> I have tried to rpm -qa | grep ipw
> but only the ipw2200 driver shows up
> 
> How do I remove ipw2100 and configure it to use the ipw2200 driver? (I
> think I installed this once a long time ago.)
> As it looks like this is the cause. 
> 
> Paul 
I would switch from netwrok to using NetworkManager, and
NetworkManageDispacher. And now there is even a faq below to explain its
use.
http://live.gnome.org/DarrenAlbers/NetworkManagerFAQ

I am also a little mystified why you are getting ipw2100 error messages
if your card is a an ipw2200. You seem not to have an ipw2200 module on
your system.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>