ipw2200 + Laptop + Hoary = Mess?

Byron Poland wpoland at gmail.com
Fri May 27 20:57:22 UTC 2005


On 5/27/05, Dan Svarreby <dan.svarreby at home.se> wrote:
> 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):
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ... but Hoary managed to install the crappy drivers that ships with the
> disc:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ... well, I think I'll start with uninstalling these drivers first:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ... OK, I will skip this step and proceed with the installation:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> 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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I installed the 1.04 drivers just the other day with out a problem on
my hoary system.  make sure you have the kernel-headers package
installed.

Also for what its worth, the 1.04 drivers with WEP worked like crap on
my system.  I kept getting "ipw2200: Firmware error detected. 
Restarting." errors in my syslog, and the network could just
continuously come on and off line.




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