Ipw2200 problem in Fedora 8

Wed Apr 23 18:57:50 UTC 2008

Eason Mai schrieb am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008:

> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
> ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
> ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
> ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
> ipw2200: failed to register network device
> ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:02.0 disabled
> ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5

You did not install the firmware. A simple

yum install ipw2200-firmware

should fix the problem.

-- 
bye,
Adalbert

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