Re: wlan in etch


Hi,

I am running etch in a Sony Vaio with an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200bg
Network Connection wireless network card. I am running a 2.6.18 kernel,
so, afaik, the ipw2200 module is already in the kernel. I've installed
Wireless Extensions and Tools. I would appreciate very much if someone
could point me to a how-to in order to put the wireless card to work. I
looked at the archives, and googled a bit too, but the information I've
found is out of data or fragmented.

Thanks in advance for the help

Marcelo

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On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 21:17 +0000, Kalessin wrote:
Hello,

If your card is correctly recognised by the system (you can check by
running ifconfig and/or dmesg). Then, you should be able to configure it
easily by using network-manager (aptitude search network-manager) ?

Best Regards.



Hi,

thank you very much for your advice. After running "dmesg |grep 2200"

I got the following output:

marcelo@tango:~$ dmesg |grep 2200
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kmq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
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
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:0b.0 failed with error -5

so, the problem seems to be with the "firmware". I will go after it and try again...

regards

Marcelo

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