Re: no wireless in Debian on laptop intel 2915ABG

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:34:25 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:

(...)

> ipw2200 0000:02:03.0:firmware: requesting ipw2200-bss.fw failed: Reason
> -2 ipw2200: unable to load firmware: -2
> ipw2200: failed to register network device ipw2200: probe of
> 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5
> 
> 
> so, now we know it FAILS, but WHY...
> 
> I googled, but didn't see any resolution ( except for 1 Mandriva..) I
> installed the firmware-ipw2x00 from the non-free source & also
> downloaded from ipw2200.sourceforge.net nothing worked.

Did you follow these steps?

http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200#InstallationonEstablishedSystems

(after the installation of firmware blob, reload the module)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón