Bug 113446

I have installed Suse 10.0 beta3 and download rhe RPM for the ipw firmware from 
there :

ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-Beta3-Extra/kernel-modules+firmware/CD1/suse/noarch/

My ipw2200 wifi card isn't recognized by iwconfig and there is the dmesg output :

ipw2200: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:08.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 233
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw-2.3-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:08.0 disabled
ipw2200: probe of 0000:06:08.0 failed with error -5

Noticed that for another bug I've reported (not solved at the moment and it's
hard to try finding but in beta3 without network ;o)), I have disabled
yenta_socket else my laptop freeze. There is a problem with the PCMCIA handling.
But I don't think this is related to this problem.

On SuSE 9.3, I had the WIFI correctly working directly and I think it was ok in
SuSE 10.0 beta1 with the RPM of the firmware for this beta.

It seems to be a known problem, I've tried this :

echo 100 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout && rmmod ipw2200 && modprobe ipw2200

as suggested on a webpage, but it doesn't worked. It just increase the time
before the error message is sent to dmesg after the modprobe.

I've seen that it could work if I disable udev. I'll try but I don't think this
is the perfect solution if SuSE use udev.