ipw2200 wireless problem

cuco · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 42

I currently just completed installing Gentoo on my sony vaio notebook. I have a built in Intel wireless card and I followed the instructions on this forum.

I was able to get my built in wireless working (well sorta) when i typed iwconfig i could see eth1 as a wireless device. I rebooted my system and now i get this

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 0.16
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw2200_boot.fw load failed
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:0b.0 failed with error -5

I dont know why i'm getting this when it worked at first. I read the ipw2200 site regarding the boot.fw problem... i tried loading firmware_class with modprobe... but no luck.

any ideas?

cuco · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 42

I got this working by removing dhcp for eth1.

But now what should be the correct syntax for eth1 in /etc/conf.d/net since its wireless ?

cuco · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 42

dammit i spoke too soon. I rebooted and again back to square one. I'm again getting this on dmesg

ipw2200: ipw2200_boot.fw load failed
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE

i've scan the ipw200 site for answers and i've found nothing helpful.

lamekain · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:39 pm Post subject:

downgrade udev. See this thread
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