SUSE 9.3, AMD64 +intel ipw2200 wireless
I have a Eurocom/Clevo D470K athlon64 laptop with ipw2200 wireless builtin. I am running the latest Suse 9.2 Pro + IPW drivers available by YOU the card is detected at boot time and the kernel modules are loaded in lsmod | grep ipw ipw2200 120084 0 firmware_class 11264 1 ipw2200 ieee80211 32484 1 ipw2200 ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.10.33 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 using my pcmcia 802.11b card i can connect to wireless networks without issue. However, I cannot get the builtin ipw2200 to connect to the network. How do I find out if the upcoming 9.3 release will support the intel ipw2200 under the amd64 architecture? I have a spare partition I can load a recent 9.3 snapshot, if such is available for testing? Thanks -- Len Zaifman Systems Manager, Supercomputing Systems Centre for Computational Biology Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ont. M5G 1X8 leonardz@sickkids.ca (416)813-5513
On Thursday 24 March 2005 22:00, Len Zaifman wrote:
I have a Eurocom/Clevo D470K athlon64 laptop with ipw2200 wireless builtin.
I am running the latest Suse 9.2 Pro + IPW drivers available by YOU
the card is detected at boot time and the kernel modules are loaded in
lsmod | grep ipw ipw2200 120084 0 firmware_class 11264 1 ipw2200 ieee80211 32484 1 ipw2200 ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.10.33 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
using my pcmcia 802.11b card i can connect to wireless networks without issue. However, I cannot get the builtin ipw2200 to connect to the network.
How do I find out if the upcoming 9.3 release will support the intel ipw2200 under the amd64 architecture? I have a spare partition I can load a recent 9.3 snapshot, if such is available for testing?
There had been liveCDs for 9.2, therefore I assume there might be a liveCD also for 9.3 AMD64 made available by SuSE, when 9.3 will be released. This should allow testing. Of course you can also install 9.3 in your extra partition, and boot in that to test. But then you need the 9.3 DVDs. In any case, you need to wait a few weeks... HTH, Matt
lsmod | grep ipw ipw2200 120084 0 firmware_class 11264 1 ipw2200 ieee80211 32484 1 ipw2200 ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.10.33 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
using my pcmcia 802.11b card i can connect to wireless networks without issue. However, I cannot get the builtin ipw2200 to connect to the network.
Are there any kernel messages? If yes please post them. I suppose you are the first to ever test the ipw2xxx driver on 64bit. -Andi
Thanks for the response Andi. from dmesg: module ieee80211_crypt unsupported by SUSE/Novell, tainting kernel. ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' module ieee80211 unsupported by SUSE/Novell, tainting kernel. module ipw2200 unsupported by SUSE/Novell, tainting kernel. ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 0.12 ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:05.0 (0000 -> 0002) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:05.0 to 64 ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On: Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work. OOps - I never saw that message before apparently i need software to turn the radio on and off. Where does that come from? By the way: I need software because I checked cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:00\:05.0/rf_kill 1 and according to note on the net: 0 = RF kill not enabled (radio on) 1 = SW based RF kill active (radio off) <<<< I am 1 2 = HW based RF kill active (radio off) 3 = Both HW and SW RF kill active (radio off) If I press fnkey 11 to turn the radio on: cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:00\:05.0/rf_kill 0 I get different messages: dmesg | grep ipw module ipw2200 unsupported by SUSE/Novell, tainting kernel. ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 0.12 ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On: ipw2200: dmaWaitSync Failed ipw2200: Unable to load boot firmware ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFF ipw2200: Failed to up device Thanks for offering to help Andi Kleen said:
lsmod | grep ipw ipw2200 120084 0 firmware_class 11264 1 ipw2200 ieee80211 32484 1 ipw2200 ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.10.33 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 using my pcmcia 802.11b card i can connect to wireless networks without issue. However, I cannot get the builtin ipw2200 to connect to the network.
Are there any kernel messages? If yes please post them.
I suppose you are the first to ever test the ipw2xxx driver on 64bit.
-Andi
-- Len Zaifman Systems Manager, Supercomputing Systems Centre for Computational Biology Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ont. M5G 1X8 leonardz@sickkids.ca (416)813-5513
Andi Kleen
lsmod | grep ipw ipw2200 120084 0 firmware_class 11264 1 ipw2200 ieee80211 32484 1 ipw2200 ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.10.33 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
using my pcmcia 802.11b card i can connect to wireless networks without issue. However, I cannot get the builtin ipw2200 to connect to the network.
Are there any kernel messages? If yes please post them.
I suppose you are the first to ever test the ipw2xxx driver on 64bit.
No - a colleague tested it a few weeks ago and told me that it worked (not sure whether it was 2100 or 2200).. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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