In <438F5EE0.6050909@univie.ac.at>, on 12/01/05
at 09:36 PM, Birgit Kellner
Argh, after a period of perfect w-lan connectivity with SuSE 9.3, 10.0 causes agony again.
After the system update, wireless didn't work. I then installed the ipw-firmware package; after configuring the w-lan interface it worked fore a few hours until I rebooted. Since then, the wireless connection has gone. I tried to install the latest ipw2200 and ieee80211 versions, but neither compiled.
I then reinstalled the original SuSE 10.0 kernel modules (via system repair), rebuilt ipw-firmware from the src-package (as I picked up in a SuSE mailing-list), but still, no connectivity. At this stage, I just don't know what's wrong: kernel modules, firmware, or network setup. And it all worked so nicely with 9.3!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here's the output from dmesg:
...snip...
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 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
Known issue:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=113446
HTH.
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