Re: unable to load ipw2200 module

[oneman <lists@onemanifest.net>]

On 18-jul-2008, at 6:22, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:59:45AM +0200, oneman wrote:
> > I've got a Dell Latitude D810 and I tried to get the wireless to  
> > work. I
> >  installed the ipw2200 driver, but get an error in dsmesg:
> >
> > dull:/home/oneman# dmesg | grep ipw
> > ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0mq
> > 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 0000:03:03.0 failed with error -5
> >
> >
> > Does this mean the card is broken or is there anything I can do to  
> > get it
> > loaded?
>
> which version of debian? I believe you need the firmware which is
> likely in non-free. enable the non-free repos in /etc/apt/sources.list
> and then do an aptitude update and search for firmware.

I'm running Etch. The drivers were in non-free if I remember well.

I did install the driver, and it looked to me as these entries in dmesg
show the driver being loaded, and failing. But maybe I'm misreading  
it and
is this just the device being detected? Is there a way to check wich  
modules
are actually loaded? I looked at modprobe but that only seems tot list
available drivers on disk with 'modprobe -l'.


Peter