Hi, On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:08:42 +0300 (EEST) "Jesper Andersson" <.> wrote:
Dear everyone,
I wonder if anyone has any experience of getting the wireless eth-card in a Dell Latitude D600 to work for SuSE 9.2? The card is an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG. It is recognised by the system as such, and I am able to configure it in Yast without any obvious problems. However, it doesn't get an IP-address. This is in contrast with the same laptop in the same location booting the XP partition, in which case it finds the network, gets an IP and chats away happily. The setup is the same for SuSE and XP: DHCP, named ssid, WEP-ASCII-5char encryption.
I think it doesn't help you too much, but please let me tell you my story in brief. I have SUSE 9.1; a system even doesn't recognizing my ipw2200 wireless stuff of my Acer 803LMiB... I had several hours/days spent with attempting to get it work via diffe- rent methods, but at the end only ONE was successful. In fact I down- loaded and self-compiled three "packages" from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ ; please note the exact version- numbers worked in my case: 1) ieee80211-1.0.3.tgz 2) ipw2200-fw-2.3.tgz 3) ipw2200-1.0.6.tgz To be more precise, I removed the orig. 3x ieee80211*.ko and one single ipw2200.ko kernel module-files, rmmod-ded them and then did "depmod -a". Then I compiled and installed the ieee80211-related stuff; later I added the firmware into /lib/firmware and soft-linked all files to /etc/firmware and in addition to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. As next, compiled the driver itself and installed the resulted .ko file manually to its respective place. As last you have to "modprobe ipw2200" and everything should work. I repeat that I'm on SUSE 9.1, where I even don't have firmware in rpm form. Probably that you also have to _remove_ for this kind of manual tries... For more details please don't hesitate to contact me, Pelibali Ps. Don't afraid to experiment a little. I'm also just a hyperactive amateur; from diverse online materials and self-experiences I could manage the above. (+Don't think that 9.1 and 9.2 differ too much.)