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| Summary: | Intel Wlan 2200BG isn't working | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 | Reporter: | Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <wearabnet> |
| Component: | Network | Assignee: | Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | lgrimmer, suse-beta, wearabnet |
| Version: | Beta 6 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | SuSE Linux 10.1 | ||
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| Found By: | Other | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
Here is the dmesg | grep ipw2200: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.10 ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection ipw2200: ipw-2.4-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2 ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2 ipw2200: failed to register network device ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5 Is the ipw-firmware package installed (rpm -q ipw-firmware)? If not, download it from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/10.1/SUSE-Linux10.1-Beta6-Extra/suse/noarch and install it ;-) Hello, Actually before your post I downloaded firmware ipw2200-fw-2.4.tgz from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php Then I did tar xzvf ipw2200-fw-2.4.tgz -C /lib/firmware/ Then it worked, but I can't configure the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG via YaST2 It asks me to install ipw-firmware. Here is the dmesg | ipw2200 suse:/home/abdullah # dmesg | grep ipw2200 ipw2200: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.10 ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection So can you get this fixed in next beta? Thank you, -Arabian WeArab Network http://www.WeArab.Net/ (In reply to comment #3) > Actually before your post I downloaded firmware ipw2200-fw-2.4.tgz from > http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php [...] > Then it worked, but I can't configure the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG via > YaST2 > It asks me to install ipw-firmware. I guess the reason is that the tarball is not listed in the RPM database. Please install the RPM I pointed you to and test again. @SUSE team: I'm not sure if YaST should only depend on the RPM database in this case... Hello, I did install that RPM and now I can configure the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG via YaST2. But I still get this error "ipw2200: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag." In first place why I have to install that RPM? Shouldn't be installed auto? Thank you, -Arabian WeArab Network http://www.WeArab.Net/ > But I still get this error "ipw2200: module not supported by Novell, setting U
> taint flag."
This is just a warning about a non-GPL license, you can easily dismiss it. Martin: Maby we should add some popup that tells the user to download the firmware package.
This should be docmented at a highly visible place, to avoid confusion. See my comments in BUG#144403 about this. Reassigning to the new maintainer of yast2-network. move to later reopen reassign to bubli, probably fixed already? This works for me long time ago since 10.1 ;) Hm, yes, there were quite some fixes to Intel wireless cards handling recently (see e.g. bug #209413, or bug #223871). Now, if the package with the firmware is available from configured installation sources, user is asked to confirm its installation. If it is not found, user is advised to add Add-On CD to his/her installation sources In reply to comment #5: ipw-firmware RPM needs to be installed because Intel wireless cards have in in Requires: flag supplied by hwinfo. This way, YaST makes sure the card will work at the end. It simply cannot keep track of all downloaded and installed tarballs. Bug I agree with comment #7 that this firmware stuff should be documented. I keep this bug open just to add some hints to the help texts Closing as LATER for ENOTIME, Sorry. Some of them might be closed as NOTAPPLICABLEANYMORE (which needs further checking). mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy) mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy) mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy) Closing old LATER+REMIND bugs as WONTFIX - if you still plan to work on it, feel free to reopen and set to ASSIGNED. In case the report saw repeated reopen comments, it's due to bugzilla timing out on the huge request ;( |
My labtop is Toshiba SMX30-113 Centrino. I just faced a problem with the Intel Wlan 2200BG Yast sees it and it allows me to configure it, but really I couldn't use it, it says interface isn't up I tried everything even ifup wlan0 and it says interface isn't found. Here is my ifconfig output. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B0:A8:83:0B inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b0ff:fea8:830b/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2504 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2640 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1477203 (1.4 Mb) TX bytes:441115 (430.7 Kb) Interrupt:225 Base address:0x6800 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:78 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:78 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:5340 (5.2 Kb) TX bytes:5340 (5.2 Kb) As you know most of Centrino labtops have Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG. Thank you, -Arabian WeArab Network http://www.WeArab.Net/