ipw2200 problem - iwconfig lists "no wireless extensions"

[Chewbranca]

I know this is has popped up on the boards quite a bit, but I've searched through past threads without much help, and googled for a while without any solutions either. So here goes, I just did a fresh install of gentoo and I am trying to get my intel 2200bg wireless card working, however its not being detected by iwconfig, it just lists "no wireless extensions" for all devices. I emereged ieee80211 and ipw2200, along with wireless-tools, and tried making various links to /etc/init.d/net.eth0 without any luck, and tried changing /etc/conf.d/net. Also I tried playing around with /etc/iftab but that still didn't work. Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Heres some output:
ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:5D:74:05:49
inet addr:192.168.0.111 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1519 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1058091 (1.0 Mb) TX bytes:209134 (204.2 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x3000

fiwi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-0E-10-03-02-F0-69-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

fiwi0 no wireless extensions.

lsmod | grep 2200
ipw2200 176776 0
ieee80211 47748 1 ipw2200
firmware_class 7808 2 pcmcia,ipw2200


lspci | grep 2200
0000:01:0d.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

[vladgrigorescu]

Can you post the appropriate sections from dmesg?

[Chewbranca]

dmesg | grep 2200
PREFETCH window: 22000000-23ffffff
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw-2.3-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:01:0d.0 failed with error -5


hmmm didnt notice that before, that could definitely be the problem.

[vladgrigorescu]

Try this: