Re: wlan in etch

[Marcelo Chiapparini <chiappa@oi.com.br>]

> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am running etch in a Sony Vaio with an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200bg
> > Network Connection wireless network card. I am running a 2.6.18 kernel,
> > so, afaik, the ipw2200 module is already in the kernel. I've installed
> > Wireless Extensions and Tools. I would appreciate very much if someone
> > could point me to a how-to in order to put the wireless card to work. I
> > looked at the archives, and googled a bit too, but the information I've
> > found is out of data or fragmented. 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for the help
> > 
> > Marcelo 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Marcelo Chiapparini
> > chiappa@oi.com.br

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 21:17 +0000, Kalessin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> If your card is correctly recognised by the system (you can check by
> running ifconfig and/or dmesg). Then, you should be able to configure it
> easily by using network-manager (aptitude search network-manager) ?
> 
> Best Regards.
> 
> 

Hi,

thank you very much for your advice. After running "dmesg |grep 2200"

I got the following output:

marcelo@tango:~$ dmesg |grep 2200
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kmq
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 0000:02:0b.0 failed with error -5

so, the problem seems to be with the "firmware". I will go after it and try again...

regards

Marcelo

-- 
Marcelo Chiapparini
chiappa@oi.com.br