Cannot get wireless working on powerbook

[Bearcatrp]

I installed 10.2 for PPC. Works good but cannot get the wireless to work. I can surf the net if I plug in direct though. Can anyone point me in the right direction. This is on a G4 powerbook.
tnks
Randy

[yourname3232]

Can you open a terminal and type "lspci" without the quotes and paste what it says?

[conradt]

I have similar problem with SL10.0 on my IBM Thinkpad:
This is what lspci says, so obviously the wireless controller is found.

...
82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)
04:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 03)
04:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4510 IEEE-1394 Controller (rev 01)
04:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)


When I go to the yast > network devices > network cards, I see my Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG
Then I go to edit > leave it on DHCP setup method > next > enter the network data > Finish

I set it to start automatically at boot time. Nevertheless, it does not connect. How can I monitor the status, connection log or somehow get the connection up manually?

[antidrugue]

04:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

You are in luck, that is one of the most Linux-compatible cards out there.

Check out the output of :

dmesg | grep ipw2200

Post the output of that command. Depending of the driver version it display, you'll have to install a certain version of the IPW2200 firmware (probably version 2.4).

[conradt]

Thanks, that seems to be the problem indeed. Will try to update the firmware.

Just fyi - here's the output:

ipw2200: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw-2.3-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:04:02.0 failed with error -

[antidrugue]

So you need to download and extract firmware version 2.3 from here :
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php

Put the extracted files in /lib/firmware/ and you should be good to go.

[conradt]

Hi, thanks so much. After downloading the right firmware version and playing around with the network configuration it works.

Strangely (I have installed KiFi) it shows me a good signal strength in the taskbar, but doesn't give me any available networks in the window when double-clicking on the KiFi icon in the taskbar. Nevertheless it connects.
I had my network showing up in the window there once but after that never. Maybe it's a problem with KiFi.

Anyway, works fine now. Thanks for the help.

[Bearcatrp]

I typed in Ispci and it stated command not found.
Randy

[antidrugue]

I typed in Ispci and it stated command not found

It's "LSPCI" not "ISPCI" (all in small letters).

Try

/sbin/lspci

instead.

[Bearcatrp]

network controller: broadcom corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g wireless lan controller (rev 03)

Hope this is what you want me to post.
Randy