[SLE] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG under SuSE 9.2?

From: Jesper Andersson (jesper_at_fmrib.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 09/21/05

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    Dear everyone,

    I wonder if anyone has any experience of getting the wireless eth-card in
    a Dell Latitude D600 to work for SuSE 9.2? The card is an Intel
    PRO/Wireless 2200BG. It is recognised by the system as such, and I am able
    to configure it in Yast without any obvious problems. However, it doesn't
    get an IP-address. This is in contrast with the same laptop in the same
    location booting the XP partition, in which case it finds the network,
    gets an IP and chats away happily. The setup is the same for SuSE and XP:
    DHCP, named ssid, WEP-ASCII-5char encryption.

    The following may be relevant version numbers

    Kernel 2.6.8-24
    wireless-tools 27pre26-10
    ipw-firmware 3.3

    During boot I get the following messages (some of which sound a bit
    omnious, but I am not certain how serious they are) that I interpret as
    related to the problem

    <4>ieee80211_crypt: unsupported module, tainting kernel. ("tainting is
    bad, right?")
    <7>ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
    <4>ieee80211: unsupported module, tainting kernel.
    .
    .
    <4>ipw2200: unsupported module, tainting kernel.
    <6>ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200 Network Driver, 0.8
    <6>ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
    .
    .
    <6>eth1: Setting MAC to 00:0e:35:ad:e3:81
    <3>ipw2200: Calibration

    and the later on when trying to connect

    eth1 device: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
    eth1 configuration: wlan-id-00:0e:35:ad:e3:81
    ERROR: command 'iwconfig eth1 mode Managed' returned
           Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
           SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
        eth1 (DHCP) . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding.
    waiting

    If anyone recognise the problem and has a solution to it I would be for
    ever grateful.

    Please also be gentle with me if/when replying. I am a bit of a beginner
    and don't handle jargon very well.

    Puss Jesper 

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