ipw2200 wireless not working on Compaq Presario V2413AP

Peter Arremann loony at loonybin.org
Thu Sep 8 03:35:51 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 07 September 2005 23:27, Alimin Bijosono Oei wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I tried getting my wireless internet running on my Presario laptop but
> after installing the ipw2200 firmware from freshrpms I still couldn't
> get it working correctly. From the network device setting the Intel Pro
> Wireless was recognised but it just wouldn't initialise, complaining
> that the device might not be present. From dmesg message though, there
> is an error related to ipw2200 couldn't get the IRQ setting assigned,
> details attached below. What do I need to do to get it fixed? Thanks for
> any help provided.
That will teach you to buy a compaq :-D 

Anyway - it looks like you got some acpi issues. Try booting without acpi and 
see what happens... also make sure you update to the latest bios - Compaq is 
notorious for the errors in their bioses... 

Peter.




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