intel wireless 2915abg minpci problems

[v3rn60]

Hi can anyone help me get my intel wireless 2915abg minpci working under fc5 I've installed the firmware etc, I've also installed rfswitch software from http://rfswitch.sourceforge.net , under the network configuration tab under hardware it sees that card but under the devices tab it doesn't, if I try to add the card in as a wireless device the card don't seem to be on the wireless list I assume it's due to the rfswitch still being switched off, I've been though a guide from http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml to install the firmware, I get a error message near the end of the installation if this helps (by typing) dmesg | grep ipw2200

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.3dmprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
ipw2200: Error allocating IRQ 0
ipw2200: probe of 0000:00:06.0 failed with error -16


if any one can help that will be great

paul

[v3rn60]

I've edited /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1

IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=XXXXXX
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Managed
RATE=54Mb/s

Filling in the XXX's with the real info, in my network configuration the card comes up but is inactive when I try to activate it I get the message ipw2200 device eth1 does not seem to be presant, delaying initialization I'm assumming the rfswitch isn't on.

If anyone can help that would be great

Paul

[hiberphoptik]

dunno much about that card, but for my intel 3945abg wireless card i had to go to the intel website and grab the tar.gz they had which contained the firmware, the microcode, and a kernel module to build, i also had to build and install the latest ieee80211 stuff

after all that i could bring the card up and assign wep/IP/GW/etc and add stuff to modprobve.conf and rc.local to get it to start automatically at boot

[Iron_Mike]

What version of the firmware did you install??? For the 1.1.3 version of the driver you need 3.0 version of the firmware

[v3rn60]

Yep version 3.0 is installed, all I can think is thats its the rfswitch still turned off, I did read somewhere that I can add some selotape over serton pins to disable the switch but can't seem to find out where I read it.

Paul

[Iron_Mike]

I would remove the drivers and try to reinstall them. FC5 comes with version 1.1.1 of the ipw2200 drivers and version 1.1.7 of the ieee80211 subsystem. The only thing you needed was to install the 3.0 firmware into /lib/firmware to make it work. By the looks of the error it seems the ipw2200 drivers you installed got borked somehow.