Problems with Intel 2200BG Wireless Card on 2.6.23-gentoo-r3

FreePeter · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 12

I've found many articles on how to using 2200BG, but I still can't

Here's the error message when booting:
freepeter@localhost /sbin $ dmesg | grep ipw2200
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmrq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5

I've emerged ipw2200-firmware 3.0
UDEV version 115 r1

I've read the gentoo wiki,
I guess they solutions in Eric's blog is too old and I didn't try...(In fact, in UDEV-115-r1, there didn't exist /sbin/udev_run_hotplugd anyway...

And,
lsmod | grep ipw2200 got nothing to output,
also, rmmod ipw2200 & modprobe ipw2200 will tell me that FATAL: Module ipw2200 not found.
(I guess it's right, because in this kernel, IPW2200 driver is built-in kernel, not as module~~~)
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FreePeter · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 12

I've seen this page
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87103

It says:
"Ok, seems to work for udev-103 now when

First, I downgraded back to udev-094, and then

CONFIG_PROTECT="-*" emerge udev

It seems that when udev upgrades, some junk from the previous configuration
gets left behind. Downgrading and then upgrading with configprotects removed
fixed the issue.
"

I guess maybe in udev-115-r1, some configuration files also wrong?
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Mark Clegg · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject:

Well, I can confirm that it should work.

I'm using ...

gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r6
udev-115-r1
ipw2200-firmware-3.0

And it's fine.

The only difference I can think of, is that I've got the ipw2200 driver compiled as a module rather than directly into the kernel.

FreePeter · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 12

At last I recompile the kernel and set ipw2200 built as a module...
And then it's all right...

I don't know why...Is this a bug...
I will go to bugzilla...-_-bbbbbbbbb

FreePeter · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 12

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202557
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