Re: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 18:45 +0000, gordon gorste plus com wrote:
> Dear List
> 
> I am trying to get my Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG wirless card working
> with Fedora core 6.  I have installed the upto drives as the I was advised
> but I have some error messages coming up in my /var/log/messages these
> are:
> 
> 
> Nov 18 18:10:03 bilbo kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915
> Network Driver, 1.1.2kmprq
> Nov 18 18:10:03 bilbo kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel
> Corporation
> Nov 18 18:10:03 bilbo kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
> Network Connection
> Nov 18 18:10:03 bilbo kernel: ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware
> failed: Reason -2
> Nov 18 18:10:03 bilbo kernel: ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
> Nov 18 18:10:03 bilbo kernel: ipw2200: failed to register network device
> Nov 18 18:10:03 bilbo kernel: ipw2200: probe of 0000:01:05.0 failed with
> error -5
> 
> It looks from the logs above that it has detected the card ok but failed
> to load the firmware.  How can I fix this?
> 
> Where do i configure the card to connect to my network?
> 
> Thankyou for your help
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gordon Stewart
> 
Load ipw2200-firmaware but running:
yum install ipw2200-firmware
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