ipw2200+wpa+other problems

[windkind]

Hello,

I have a problem with my ipw2200, I can't use my wireless anymore. I
don't even know from where should I start, so here's what I did:

i'm running on a custom kernel 2.6.21.1, debian 4.0
=> installed ieee80211 module
=> installed ipw2200 module
=> installed firmware in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware

when i first rebooted my comp, wireless worked fine and I could use
KnetworkManager to connect, also I use WPA, I could connect to my AP but
using DHCP. When I tried to setup a static IP in
/etc/network/interfaces, KnetworkManager no
longer worked, saying "no device found". I've been following many
howto's about ipw2200 and WPA, installed wpasupplicant, and configured
it, but still no luck. When I change static to DHCP and run ifup eth2
command, eth2 receives a different to my network IP address.

here's the output from dmesg | grep ipw

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.1
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: Detected geography ZZD (13 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a 
channels)

and here's the output from ifconfig eth2

eth2    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:CE:10:8B:66
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:576  Metric:1
          RX packets:258 errors:0 dropped:45 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:75852 (74.0 KiB)  TX bytes:9274 (9.0 KiB)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0xe000 Memory:dfcfd000-dfcfdfff

Can anyone give suggestions what I'm doing wrong? and what does this line mean?

Interrupt:18 Base address:0xe000 Memory:dfcfd000-dfcfdfff

Apologize for my English, I'm Russian.

P.S. I had no problems whatsoever when Debian was in Beta 3 phase

[aliov]

try this:
iwconfig and see the output .

now with what you have as a wireless extension (ex:eth2) do

iwconfig eth2 essid (the name of you network) mode managed
iwconfig eth2 key (you wep key)
dhcpcd eth2

and tell me if this works.

hope this help.

[windkind]

tried...

$ iwconfig
bash: iwconfig: command not found

what is the package name that I should install? I checked whether I have wireless-tools package or not, and I do have it.

Thanks for your time and suggestions

[windkind]

oops, sorry, i forgot to run the command as root. So here's what happens

# iwconfig eth2
Warning: Driver for device eth2 has been compiled with version 22
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
Some things may be broken...

eth2    radio off  ESSID:"my-ap"
          Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power=off   Sensitivity=8/0
          Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

and if I type

# iwconfig eth2 key my_wpa_key
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    invalid argument "my_wpa_key".

[windkind]

It's working!!!

I edited /etc/network/interfaces, added

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp
        wpa-ssid my_ap
        wpa-key_mgmt WPA-PSK
        wpa-proto WPA
        wpa-pairwise TKIP
        wpa-group TKIP
        wpa-psk secretkey
        wpa-driver wext

And also, it seemed that Radio was turned off on Wireless card.
Thanks for help, I appreciate it

[antidrugue]

=> installed ieee80211 module
=> installed ipw2200 module
=> installed firmware in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware

Those are all unecessary steps (except for the firmware).

You only need to untar the firmware in /lib/firmware/ or /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/.

Check out my post here for more details about that:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/deb...-2-6-17-a.html

[windkind]

antidrugue, thanks for the link, it was much information. Next time I will consider copying firmware only