WiFi.... it tastes like chicken.

[boonesb]

Hello all, hopefully someone will be able to help me out with my wireless woes.

I have a Dell Inspiron 9200 laptop.
The wireless card is an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

Here is the current status of my situation.

The green "wifi" light is on.

Here is what I see when I run: #iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
RTS thr:1600 B Fragment thr:2304 B
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

Here is what I see when I run: #iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 No scan results

KNetWorkManager reports that "No wireless networks are found"

I have manually tried to tell Linux what the ESSID is... by typing #iwconfig wlan0 essid myESSID
and that did not work either.

When I use the KWiFiManager it finds the card, but does not find the access point.


It has taken me a month to get to this point! I feel like I am so close I can taste the internet....and it tastes like chicken


What am I missing? I used YaST to install the iwp-firware. Perhaps its not installed/configured?

Can someone please lend a hand? I would really like to be able to take my laptop home from the office, and get some work done at home, via our neighbors free wireless.


Please Help!!

Thanks,

Steve

[antidrugue]

I have a Dell Inspiron 9200 laptop.
The wireless card is an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

[...]

I used YaST to install the iwp-firware.

That should be the only step required to get the card working. Perhaps the wrong firmware version is installed ?

Make sure the card's module gets loaded correctly :

dmesg | grep -i ipw2200

will tell you.

[boonesb]

Awesome!

I ran that command this is the output!

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.1mprq
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 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5
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 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.1mprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation



Ok, so at least I know whats going on, I guess? What should I tackle next? Is it the wrong version, or just unable to load the firmware?

How do I know what version I need? Where to get it? and finally, how the heck do you install firmware?!

[antidrugue]

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.1mprq

Given you have IPW2200 driver version 1.2.1, that means you need firmware version 3.0 (as mentioned here).

I'm not sure of the official Suse way to tackle the problem though.

Perhaps the easiest solution would be to uninstall the "iwp-firmware" package you previously installed (using YAST), and then to manualy download & extract the firmware.

Just download the firmware (verion 3.0) from here:
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php

Then extract it to /lib/firmware/, as explained here:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...-core-6-a.html

[boonesb]

well, i installed the firmware, as described.....

now when i run the previous posted command i get


ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.1mprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation



However, i still am not picking up any access points....


Does anyone have any thoughts? is there a way i can check my configurations, and see whats going on? I'll post any and all information for some help.

Thanks,
Steve

[boonesb]

I tried these commands as well


Here is the output


#ifdown wlan0
wlan0 device: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)
wlan0 configuration: wlan-bus-pci-0000:02:03.0
# ifup wlan0
wlan0 device: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)
wlan0 configuration: wlan-bus-pci-0000:02:03.0
wlan0 warning: using NO encryption
Starting DHCP Client Daemon on wlan0... . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding.

[valemon]

Did you try configuring your network card (ESSID, wep encryption etc) with YaST->Network Devices->Network Card? After you finish the procedure knetworkmanager shall start and get you connected

[boonesb]

Did you try configuring your network card (ESSID, wep encryption etc) with YaST->Network Devices->Network Card? After you finish the procedure knetworkmanager shall start and get you connected

Many times my friend... KNetworkManager knows my card is there, it tells me that there are no wireless networks to connect too... but im at work....and i know there is a wireless network here.

[boonesb]

Is it possible there is something wrong with the driver? Here is the output from

# /sbin/lsmod

Is this how things should look? the ipw2200 isnt used by anything, but some ieee80211 is used by ipiw2200.

Module Size Used by
ipw2200 147784 0
iptable_filter 7168 0
ip_tables 17604 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 18180 1 ip_tables
ieee80211 34632 1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt 10112 1 ieee80211
b44 30604 0
mii 9600 1 b44
joydev 13504 0
af_packet 29320 4
vmnet 45868 3
parport_pc 42084 0
parport 39752 1 parport_pc
vmmon 114252 0
ipv6 263584 24
snd_pcm_oss 53376 0
snd_mixer_oss 21248 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq 60272 0
snd_seq_device 12812 1 snd_seq
cpufreq_conservative 11912 0
cpufreq_ondemand 10892 1
cpufreq_userspace 9088 0
cpufreq_powersave 5888 0
speedstep_centrino 12832 1
freq_table 8832 1 speedstep_centrino
button 10896 0
battery 14340 0
ac 9476 0
apparmor 55572 0
aamatch_pcre 18304 1 apparmor
loop 20488 0
dm_mod 60184 0
pcmcia 40892 0
firmware_class 14080 2 ipw2200,pcmcia
ohci1394 37040 0
ieee1394 102584 1 ohci1394
ndiswrapper 185876 0
yenta_socket 30348 1
usbhid 52192 0
sdhci 21644 0
mmc_core 28672 1 sdhci
rsrc_nonstatic 17024 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 43412 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
ide_cd 42272 1
cdrom 38432 1 ide_cd
snd_intel8x0 36764 1
snd_ac97_codec 95648 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 6400 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 86916 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 27908 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
intel_agp 27804 1
agpgart 35528 1 intel_agp
i8xx_tco 11160 0
snd 61188 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,s nd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 13792 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 14472 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
shpchp 40224 0
uhci_hcd 26892 0
ehci_hcd 34696 0
pci_hotplug 35136 1 shpchp
usbcore 114896 4 ndiswrapper,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
reiserfs 237312 2
edd 13892 0
fan 8964 0
piix 13700 0 [permanent]
thermal 18568 0
processor 34664 2 speedstep_centrino,thermal
ide_disk 20480 4
ide_core 129992 3 ide_cd,piix,ide_disk