Can't Get Intel PRO/Wireless Card to work with FC5

[jim lawrence]

On 3/21/06, Clayton Rogers <clayton at cjrogers.net> wrote:
>  Hi Jim,
>
>  The actual IPW2200 drivers are built into the kernel already, it is just
> the firmware you require.
>
>  I have logged a bugzilla call a few weeks back when I was testing FC5T3 and
> receiving the following error:-
>  NETDEV_TX_BUSY returned; driver should report queue full via
> ieee_device->is_queue_full.
>
>
>  This call was moved over to FC5 and is still assigned.  From looking at the
> drivers available there is a newer version which may fix this.   I don't
> know how the system handles loading the right module if you installed the
> ones from livna.
>
>  Regards
>
>
>
>  Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
>
>
>  jim lawrence wrote:
>  On 3/21/06, Lovell Mcilwain <lovell.mcilwain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  Hello All,
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get my Intel Pro/Wireless card to work on
> FC5? I checked the IPW2200 mailing list and they believe that I should
> have everything I need for this to work already installed on my machine
> yet I am not able to get this to work.
>
> Version of IPW2200 = git-1.0.4
> Version of Firmware = 2.4
>
> At the current state of my machine here are the steps that I have done.
> 1. installed liva rpm source
> 2. ran yum update ipw2200-firmware (to try and update the firmware)
>  result: Could not find update match for ipw2200-firmware, No Packages
> marked
> for Update/Obsoletion
> 3. ran dmesg
>  result: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Drive , git-1.0.8
>  Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
> 4. Ran iwconfig
>  Result: lo: No wireless extensions
>  eth0: No wireless extensions
>  sit0: No wireless extensions
> 5. Ran system-config-network
>  Under devices tab
>  1. Clicked new
>  2. Selected "Wireless Connection"
>  ` 3. Click forward
>  Result: "Other Wireless Card" is the only selection in the device list.
>  4. Selected Ethernet Connection"
>  5. Click forward
>  Result: Intel Corporate PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter(eth1),
> Broadcom Corporate BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (eth0) and Other Ethernet Card are
> listed in the device menu
>
> Can anyone tell me what Im missing to be able to get this to work?
>
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>  means that the firmware wasn't loaded
>
> check out
> http://easylinux.info/wiki/Fedora_fc5#how_to_get_wireless_working_Intel_IPW2200_b.2Cg
> http://easylinux.info/wiki/Fedora_fc5#NetworkManager_for_Gnome
> --
>
>
>  Hey Jim,
>
>  The first link was the same set of steps for updating the firmware and I
> did redo those steps just now thinking maybe I missed something and when I
> run ifup eth1 I get the following error:
>
>  ipw2200 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization
>
>  They didn't tell me that I needed to set up the ifcfg-eth1 profile manually
> but I did that part anyway and still managed to get that error.
>
>  dmesg confirms that the device has not loaded when running modprobe.
>
>  Is there anything else that I can try?
>
>
>
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A alternative is to use the rpms from axel  @ ATrpms
herre are the ones I used
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc5/ieee80211/

ieee80211-1.1.12-9.rhfc5.at.i386.rpm
ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-1.1.12-9.rhfc5.at.i686.rpm

http://atrpms.net/dist/fc5/ipw2200-testing/
ipw2200-1.1.0-40.rhfc5.at.i386.rpm
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-1.1.0-40.rhfc5.at.i686.rpm

http://atrpms.net/dist/common/ipw2200-firmware-testing/
ipw2200-firmware-2.4-7.at.noarch.rpm
& installed the ipw2200-firmware-3.0-8.at.noarch.rpm  version after
the above were installed
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