Intel Wireless 2200bg support in kernel

[richmastaplus]

I'm running the latest gentoo sources with ieee802.11 stack and ipw2200 support built into the kernel. I have also installed the firmware.

Now when i run iwconfig on eth1 i get "no wireless extension"

I have a feeling that everything will work if i get rid of all this stuff in the kernel and install the drivers. But thats a pain, and whats the point of kernel support if it doesn't work. So I'm wondering if anybody with the same hard ware can point me in the right direction.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
02:01.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-710/2/4 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc CB710 Memory Card Reader Controller
02:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)

[richmastaplus]

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ipw2200

According to this wiki I need to enable a couple of things in the kernel. But things like [*] Hotplug firmware loading support

Are disabled, well this is what it looks like -- Hotplug firmware loading support

[richmastaplus]

Watching my boot up screen I now see I'm getting the error

IPW2200 failed error -5.
Anyone know what thats all about?

One other thing... is the startup information I see on the screen written to a log every boot, so I could get a closer look at the problem?

[sog]

i've been having some of the exact same issues. they were either caused by a.) an upgrade to the 2.6.14 kernel or b.) an upgrade to x86 GNOME, which brought with it an update to udev-077.

here's my dmesg: