Wireless problems IPW2200BG

[wprauchholz]

I tried to ge my wireless running and topping with some issues.
I run the following:
kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
02:0d.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

I installed via rpm -ivh the following:
ipw2200-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm
ipw2200-firmware-2.2-5.at.noarch.rpm
2200-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_FC3-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at.i686.rpm

The problems are the followig:
When booting the system, I get the following message:
eth1: cannot change name of lo to eth1. Device or resource busy. cannot change name of lo to eth1. Device has a different MAC address than expected.

Aditionally I installad and activated NetworkManager and NetworkManager-gnome. Despite receiving the same error message as above when re-booting, I am able to connect to wireless network!!!!
This entire process changes some other parameters coz my ethernet card stops working.

Setting of athe wireless card are: Automatically obtain IP address
Mode: Managed

Any ideas?

thx for the help

[wprauchholz]

Some additional info..
The statement "iwlist scan" gives me:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

dev29500 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:B5:3A:16:3B
ESSID:"NETGEAR_11g"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Encryption key:on
Bit Rate:54Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 9 11 6 12 18 24 36 48 54
Signal level=-60 dBm
Extra: Last beacon: 8ms ago
Cell 02 - Address: 00:03:52:E9:29:40
ESSID:"eurospot"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Encryption key:off
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11
Signal level=-73 dBm
Extra: Last beacon: 14ms ago
Cell 03 - Address: 00:40:96:54:32:E8
ESSID:"1"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Master
Channel:7
Encryption key:on
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11
Signal level=-73 dBm
Extra: Last beacon: 0ms ago

sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

And the statement ifup eth1 gives the following output:
cannot change name of lo to eth1: Device or resource busy
cannot parse MAC ` lo eth1' at argument 2
interface 'eth1' not found
interface 'eth1' not found



Any ideas?

[ryan-1.7GhzM]

Not sure if this will help, but I got that error the first time I installed my IPW2200 drivers. I believe I got it because I had the wireless card turned off (FN-F2 on my laptop) during the first reboot after installation when the hardware detection occured. I just deleted the device using network manager, reinstalled the ipw drivers and rebooted and was fine.

[jim]

As the above poster said remove the drivers all 3 rpms then reboot
install the 3 rpms then try a iwlist scan
then NetworkManagerInfo

From what i understand, (Not sure tho) NetworkManager creates its own config files and reads them instead of the network scripts

[wprauchholz]

Thamks for the hints. Worked very well. My wireless is now working with no problems.

[wprauchholz]

Thanks for the hints. Worked very well. My wireless is now working with no problems.

[gavinw6662]

I had some problems setting up my wireless too. Took me roughly 8 hours, and the answer was simple. Network Manager. That is the only way I can get the wireless card to work. Couldn't figure out how to get linux to boot both the wireless, and ethernet card from the start. If I boot without a LAN connection, and use Network Manager, it switches to the WLAN and it works. When i plug in a cat 5 cable, it switches to the ethernet connection. But sometimes my apps hang as it changes IP, any reason, any one have ideas how I can get both to start at boot???