intel 2200bg wireless

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Wed Oct 27 20:12:41 UTC 2004


Hi,

Yes, it did work under FC2, but the location for firmware moved
from /usr/lib/firmware to /lib/firmware so that firmware is actually
available to things that need it before /usr is mounted.

Move your firmware, and stuff should work.

Dan

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 21:58 +0200, Alex Thomsen Leth wrote:
> hello.
> 
> i got a intel 2200bg wireless card. but it dosnt work after upgrading to
> fc3 rc2. i got this when i tried to modprobe ipw2200:
> 
> Oct 27 21:57:33 scar kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
> Network Connection
> Oct 27 21:57:33 scar kernel: ipw2200: ipw2200_boot.fw load failed
> Oct 27 21:57:33 scar kernel: ipw2200: Unable to load firmware:
> 0xFFFFFFFE
> Oct 27 21:57:33 scar kernel: ipw2200: failed to register network device
> Oct 27 21:57:33 scar kernel: ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with
> error -5Oct 27 21:57:34 scar hald[2814]: Timed out waiting for hotplug
> event 323
> 
> the firmware is installed and the card worked perfectly with fc2.
> 
> -- 
> Alex Thomsen Leth <alexl at stofanet.dk>
> 




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