ipw2200 + Laptop + Hoary = Mess?
Dan Svarreby
dan.svarreby at home.se
Fri May 27 12:18:19 UTC 2005
I have re-installed Hoary again (I've done it between 5-10 times now)
and this is the situation right now:
During the installation of Hoary there's an option (Network
Configuration) to choose the NIC that I'd like to use. There I choose
Intel PRO 2200B/G (Wireless). I enter my ESSID and my WEP key... then it
tries to get an IP-address (automatically by DHCP).
At this stage it fails to connect to my AP. I have tried every option
there is (manually, automatically, with DHCP etc etc) ... still it
does'nt work. I have another wireless card (PCMCIA: Prism54) that I've
tested several times ... it also fails with that card.
My only option (obviously) left is to use my wired connection.
From this point, when the installation is finished, Ubuntu did
recognized my wireless card (Intel):
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iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr: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
sit0 no wireless extensions.
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... but Hoary managed to install the crappy drivers that ships with the
disc:
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dmesg | grep ipw
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 0.19
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
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... well, I think I'll start with uninstalling these drivers first:
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sudo sh ./remove-old
Password:
/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211
/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211/ieee80211.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100
/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100/ipw2100.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200
/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200/ipw2200.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/ipw.ko
Above files found. Remove? [y],n y
rm: cannot remove
`/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211': Is a
directory
rm: cannot remove
`/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100': Is a
directory
rm: cannot remove
`/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200': Is a
directory
grep: /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/build/.config: No such file or directory
grep: /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/build/include/linux/autoconf.h: No such
file or directory
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... OK, I will skip this step and proceed with the installation:
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make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/build
SUBDIRS=/home/dsvarreby/ipw2200-1.0.4
MODVERDIR=/home/dsvarreby/ipw2200-1.0.4 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/build'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/build'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
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PS! I have D/L both the firmware and the drivers (2.3 & 1.0.4). The
firmware is copied to it's location (according to the ipw2200 + WPA
thread in the forum).
I have install both kernel-headers & build-essential packages.
It's nice to see that all of this mailing lists readers has succeeded in
this but that does'nt help me at all. If everybody has got this NIC
working it should be hundreds of people who could be at help ....
(sorry, I'm pissed after having wasted all these days trying to get this
working)
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