ipw2200 wireless card detected as ethernet card

[tmort]

I have recently updated fc5 and my ipw2200 wireless card was no longer detected. I have since updated my firmware and driver using yum and atrpms

I have:

kernel 2.6.18-1.2257.fc5
driver ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2257fc5
firmware ipw2200 3

The card is now detected, but, as an ethernet card rather than a wireless card.

Can anyone help?

thanks

[deuch]

Normaly your card is defined as eth1 (or eth0, check your conf). Modify the file ifcfg-eth1 (or ifcfg-eth0 depending your conf) in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

Change the field type=Ethernet by type=Wireless and restart network : service network restart.

[tmort]

Thanks,

I did that and now my eth1 connection and hardware show up as wireless. However when I boot uo or try to activate the device I get an error:


ipw2200 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

Also, I had been using Network Manager prir to this and can't remember real clearly how to coonnect to a wireless hotspot, but as I recall I would delete any existing wireless device and choose new and then configure for the new hotspot. It would detect the name,

I can't do this as the wireless card is not on the list of wireless devices.

There must ba another config or something???

[deuch]

can you post your /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1.

Does eth1 match your wireless card ? (just to be sure )

[landoncz]

Nevermind, read your post again and answered my own question, no ideas here, sorry

[tmort]

yes eth1 matches the card. Here are the two files:

modprobe


alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
alias eth0 e100
alias eth1 ipw2200


ifconfig

# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp

[deuch]

can you do a lsmod as root please ?

[tmort]

[root@localhost ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ppp_deflate 6465 0
zlib_deflate 19033 1 ppp_deflate
ppp_async 12609 1
crc_ccitt 2497 1 ppp_async
ppp_generic 28757 6 ppp_deflate,ppp_async
slhc 6977 1 ppp_generic
snd_usb_audio 74817 0
snd_usb_lib 17217 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 24897 1 snd_usb_lib
snd_hwdep 9925 1 snd_usb_audio
savage 30913 1
drm 68437 2 savage
autofs4 21573 1
hidp 16193 2
rfcomm 37849 0
l2cap 23873 10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth 50085 5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 153597 1
ipt_REJECT 5697 1
xt_state 2625 1
ip_conntrack 52085 1 xt_state
nfnetlink 7513 1 ip_conntrack
xt_tcpudp 3521 2
iptable_filter 3393 1
ip_tables 13065 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 14405 4 ipt_REJECT,xt_state,xt_tcpudp,ip_tables
video 17221 0
sbs 16257 0
ibm_acpi 27969 0
i2c_ec 5569 1 sbs
dock 8665 0
container 4801 0
button 7249 0
battery 10565 0
asus_acpi 16857 0
ac 5701 0
ipv6 245985 20
lp 13065 0
parport_pc 27493 1
parport 37001 2 lp,parport_pc
uhci_hcd 23885 0
floppy 57317 1
snd_intel8x0 32605 1
snd_ac97_codec 91361 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 2753 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy 4293 0
snd_seq_oss 32705 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8001 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 51633 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 8781 4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 42849 0
snd_mixer_oss 16833 1 snd_pcm_oss
serio_raw 7493 0
snd_pcm 76485 4 snd_usb_audio,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_ oss
e100 36425 0
serial_cs 18757 1
mii 5825 1 e100
snd_timer 23237 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 52933 14 snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_hwdep,snd_intel8x0,s nd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,s nd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10145 1 snd
i2c_i801 8013 0
snd_page_alloc 10569 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
i2c_core 21697 2 i2c_ec,i2c_i801
pcspkr 3521 0
intel_rng 5185 0
ide_cd 38625 2
cdrom 34913 1 ide_cd
dm_snapshot 17389 0
dm_zero 2369 0
dm_mirror 28817 0
dm_mod 56921 12 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ext3 129993 2
jbd 58473 1 ext3
[root@localhost ~]#

[JonC]

I had similar trouble. Try rmmod ipw2200 and then modprobe ipw2200

If that doesn't work I'll post my ifcfg / network etc files for you.

And network manager is BY FAR the best way to manage it. I couldn't get the blasted thing working with anything else!

[tmort]

if I do rmmod and modprobe I get:

[root@localhost ~]# rmmod ipw2200
ERROR: Module ipw2200 does not exist in /proc/modules
[root@localhost ~]# modprobe ipw2200
WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211_crypt (/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2257.fc5/updates /net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2257.fc5/updates/net/i eee80211/ieee80211.ko): Invalid module format
FATAL: Error inserting ipw2200 (/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2257.fc5/updates/drivers/n et/wireless/ipw/ipw2200.ko): Invalid module format


I don't understand this. I did a yum install ipw2200-driver ipw2200 firmware

[JonC]

Do you definitely have the right version of the driver for your kernel?

[tmort]

I have:

kernel 2.6.18-1.2257.fc5
driver ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2257fc5
firmware ipw2200 3

This looks as though it would be the right driver.

Any ideas?

[deuch]

i'm not sure that tour driver is the good one

can you do this :

rpm -qa | grep -i ipw2200

and uname -a

Normaly, drivers are provided by Fedora directly, you don't need ton insall a new one. Just the firwmare need to be installed.

Did you verify that linux power up automaticaly your wireless card ? I mean that you can activate your card by a key combo (like function ket + F11 for example), can you try to enable/disable it under linux ?

[JonC]

I'll have a further look tonight.

[tmort]

Here are the resulst:

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i ipw2200
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5-1.2.0-45.1.fc5.at
ipw2200-firmware-3.0-9.at
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
[root@localhost ~]#



[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2257.fc5 #1 Fri Dec 15 16:06:24 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost ~]#