Bug 161584

Summary: Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG does not work
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: German Ergueta <german>
Component: InstallationAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: german, suse-beta
Version: Beta 8Keywords: beta_customer
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i386   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.1   
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Description German Ergueta 2006-03-28 20:45:12 UTC 
I use an nw8240 from HP. Wireless option is not available. Error reports as:
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 0000:02:04.0 failed with error -5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 233
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 0000:02:04.0 failed with error -5
Comment 1 Andreas Jaeger 2006-03-29 06:35:33 UTC 
You need to download the firmware, it's available from your extra directory, see my announcement of Beta8 for the non-oss software.
Comment 2 German Ergueta 2006-03-29 21:29:24 UTC 
I am relatively new to Suse. I found the file in the 10.0 release but I can't find on the downloaded files for the beta version. Where can I get it?

I followed other links but they all have a three step process and I am not sure I should do it:

1. Download the latest ipw2200 driver from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/  and extract the files (tar zxvf <filename>).
Instructions are in the "INSTALL" file which is included with the distribution of the driver.  Check the instructions.  There may be changes with newer releases that are not included here.

2. Download the latest ieee80211 driver from http://ieee80211.sf.net/   and extract the files (tar zxvf <filename>).

3. Download the latest firmware from http://ipw2200.sf.net/firmware.php  and extract the files (tar zxvf <filename>). 

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