Wlan problems with T43 Laptop

[dhlstrlm]

Hello,

I just had to format my laptop, so I thought I'd give Linux a go on it.. The problem now is, that I can't get my WLAN connection to work.

lspci -v:



0b:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection (rev05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 1011
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at b4001000 (32-bit, non prefetchable) [size=4k]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2



I went and got the IPW2200-1.2.1.tgz, the version 3.0. FW and the newest ieee80211 tarball as instructed and copied the fw to /lib/firmware.

When trying to make the ipw2200 i get an error:



ERROR: ieee80211.h not found in '/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/include'.

You need to install the ieee80211 subsystem from http://ieee80211.sf.net
and point this build to the location where you installed those sources, eg.:

% make IEEE80211_INC=/usr/src/ieee80211/

will look for ieee80211.h in /usr/src/ieee80211/net/

make: *** [check_inc] Error 1



and when making the ieee module:



Checking in /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 for ieee80211 components...
find: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build/: No such file or directory
egrep: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build//.config: No such file or directory
egrep: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build//include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
find: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build/: No such file or directory
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build M=/home/walla/Desktop/ieee80211-1.2.16 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2




My network configuration shows my Wlan card as eth1, and as type: ethernet.

What to do, o ye with most knowledge?

[nosnahoj]

why did you download ieee80211? I think the only thing you should install is the firmware... so you might have broken something?

[dhlstrlm]

Ok, so I just need the Firmware then? How do I get rid of the ieee80211 then? fresh reinstall?

[Iron_Mike]

Since according to your posts above, it looks like you didn't compile the ieee80211 or the ipw2200 drivers, just remove the directory where they were unarchived to. Verfiy the firmware files are in /lib/firmware and then reboot the computer.

Open a terminal window and su - (su dash) to root and type:

config-system-network

Select "New" "Wireless Connection" your 2915 should be listed under wireless connection, select it and configure according to your network setup....

[dhlstrlm]

files are in /lib/firmware, computer has been rebooted,

but the card doesn't show up in "new wireless connection".

[dhlstrlm]

Ok, after a clean reinstall it seems to be working now... Thanks for the help everyone...

[dhlstrlm]

It still works, however, is there a way of getting it to remember the WEP-key, so that it doesn't have to be entered on every boot?