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
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