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maystorm
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 Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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@swimmer:
I added those two options in /etc/modules.d/ipw2200, and after booting dmesg shows:
| Code: | ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.3
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: Radio disabled by module parameter. |
However, the LED in front does not light up and a 'net.eth1 start' doesn't work. When pressing the LED switch it doesn't light up either. BTW: It does also not light up in Ubuntu where the wireless card works; it only lights up in Windoze XP.
Now I will try the acerhk module as suggested by milu; I hope installing this module is a straightforward task and the documentation contains everything to understand what it does?
I saw that in the ~x86 branch there are newer versions of ipw2200 and ip2200-firmware; would it make sense to try those or is it not recommended to use them?
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maystorm
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| Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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@milu:
I've emerged acerhk and modprobe'd the module, loaded ipw2200 and tried 'net.eth1 start'. To no avail. I ended up now with lots of error messages in dmesg:
| Code: | atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd5 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e055 <keycode>' to make it known.
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xd5 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e055 <keycode>' to make it known.
irq 10: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
[<c0137a0a>] __report_bad_irq+0x2a/0xa0
[<c0137250>] handle_IRQ_event+0x30/0x70
[<c0137b20>] note_interrupt+0x80/0xf0
[<c01373a8>] __do_IRQ+0x118/0x130
[<c0105279>] do_IRQ+0x19/0x30
[<c01035e2>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
[<c011dcfe>] __do_softirq+0x2e/0x90
[<c011dd86>] do_softirq+0x26/0x30
[<c011de55>] irq_exit+0x35/0x40
[<c010527e>] do_IRQ+0x1e/0x30
[<c01035e2>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
handlers:
[<e08ae850>] (snd_intel8x0_interrupt+0x0/0x240 [snd_intel8x0])
Disabling IRQ #10
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: Unable to initialize device after 5 attempts.
ipw2200: Failed to up device
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.3
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: Unable to initialize device after 5 attempts.
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:06:03.0 failed with error -5 |
I must admit that I have now absolutely no clue what to do: In which order do I have to make things? Loading the modules in which order? Passing which options? At what stage pressing the LED switch?
I'd very much appreciate if somebody could tell me the correct sequence of things, at best doing those things manually on the command line without loading anything automatically during the Gentoo boot process. Once I have the card working manually I then can start configuring the boot/init scripts.
Many, many thanks in advance!
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elestedt
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:41 am Post subject: |
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I do thing like this:
1) modprobe ipw2200
2) press led button if needed (my computer, or linux driver, seems to remember which state it was in the last time)
3) /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
That's all I need to do... it loads some more modules automagically when I load ipw2200:
| Code: | firmware_class
ieee80211
ieee80211_crypt |
There might be more things done automagically - but that's the only thing I know of...
But in your case the driver seems to have some problems with the card at the hardware level... |
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maystorm
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| elestedt wrote: | | But in your case the driver seems to have some problems with the card at the hardware level... |
Those error messages indeed seem to point to hardware problems.
As the card is working when booting from the Gentoo CD I wonder whether I could build exactly the same kernel and modules as are used on that CD? Does anybody know by heart how to do this?
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maystorm
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, I finally made some progress.
What I did is: I added the "irqpoll" kernel option in my GRUB config file (by this I got rid of this annoying "Disabling IRQ #10" error message), and when I now press the LED switch twice I can do a 'net.eth1 start' and the card works! Without acerhk module or anything else, that is.
At least this is a starting point although I've not yet completely understood what's going on here...
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maystorm
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| swimmer wrote: | it has indeed to do with the radio on setting and your button on the front of your nice 4101WLMI 
I have the following in /etc/modules.d/ipw2200 | Code: | | options ipw2200 disable=1 led=1 |
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Hi swimmer,
Have you found a way to activate the RF setting automatically during boot or do you also need to start wireless comm's manually?
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:25 am Post subject: |
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If you don't have led when ipw2200 is turned on you should do this | Code: | | echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:02\:04.0/led |
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mnagl
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| maystorm wrote: | Okay, upgraded to gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r6, however, same result: Wireless card doesn't work and the same strange error messages in dmesg. However, I know for sure that yesterday evening these error messages were not present although I already had this
| Code: | ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work. |
message.
If the hardware was broken the card wouldn't work from the Gentoo CD, so we can exclude that. I'm still thinking to do a re-install. However, this is by far not my first Gentoo installation (it's the first one on a notebook) and I can't see what should have gone wrong this time... |
I tried the same on an Acer Extensa 2900 Notebook. After several hours I had success with the following:
-Installing acerhk
-Installing ipw2200 and ipw2200-firmware
-Loading the acerhk module before loading ipw2200 this way:
| Code: | modprobe acerhk force_series=290 usedritek=1
echo 1 > /proc/driver/acerhk/wirelessled |
-/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start where eth1 is the wlan-interface determined with iwconfig
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taskara
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:32 am Post subject: |
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Did anyone resolve this?
I note this thread in the forums.
-c
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