Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 183137
ipw2200 doesn't work
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:25:40 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060202 Fedora/1.0.7-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: no wireless, no sound, no battery status, no video. unable to configure wireless, sound. ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd7ce, last bus=7 PCI: Using MMCONFIG ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902 ACPI-0339: *** Error: Looking up [Z00A] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND search_node c18cec40 start_node c18cec40 return_node 00000000 PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf886e000, 00:16:36:0c:6c:14, IRQ 10 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004) ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan ipw2200: Unknown symbol escape_essid ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt ipw2200: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211 ipw2200: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211 application mixer_applet2 uses obsolete OSS audio interface ACPI-0339: *** Error: Looking up [Z00A] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND rtl8129 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. Command failed: /sbin/modprobe rtl8129 Output: FATAL: Module rtl8129 not found. Copyright (C) 2004 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com> FATAL: Error inserting ieee80211 make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1831_FC4/build M=/usr/src/ieee80211-1.0.1 MODVERDIR=/usr/src/ieee80211-1.0.1 modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.1831_FC4-i686' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.1831_FC4-i686' make: *** [modules] Error 2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to configure 2. 3. Additional info: let me know if I can provide any aditional info. Thanks David Sequoias
That bug sounds more like a kernel problem, reassigning to the proper component. Read ya, Phil
does the wireless driver in 1833 work any better? (Building your own driver is unsupported, any issues you have with that you should take to the driver maintainers)
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 #1 Wed Mar 1 23:41:37 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902 ACPI-0339: *** Error: Looking up [Z00A] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND search_node c18dcc40 start_node c18dcc40 return_node 00000000 PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0s ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8 ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection ipw2200: ipw-2.4-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2 ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2 ipw2200: failed to register network device ipw2200: probe of 0000:06:04.0 failed with error -5 ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
I'm seeing the ipw-2.4-boot.fw load fail on FC5 as well.
I found /lib/firmware empty. After I went to the Intel website, downloaded the driver kit, and populated /lib/firmware, the card now loads and works fine. (Is this due to RH/FC rejecting binary driver modules from inclusion?)
ipw2200 version 1.1.3m and ieee80211 version 1.1.14 works very well for me. It's clearly the best version of the ipw2200 driver i've tried so far. NetworkManager works great with WPA-Personal encrypted networks with hidden SSID as well as unencrypted wireless networks. That's all i've tried. It seems like my frequent dropouts are gone or at least minimized in some way.
Note: With the latest 2.6.17 update, you must have the 3.0 firmware installed from http://ipw2200.sf.net The original problem in this bug should be fixed, so I'm closing this out. If there are still any problems with this driver, please file a separate bug. Thanks.