IPW2200 not showing up in new wireless connection

[poor_student]

When I try to setup a new wireless connection with the system-config-network gui, the IPW2000 device shows up under the Ethernet connections, not the Wireless connections. I've tried to

modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200

still no sign of it. Also, lspci -v gives

02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2721
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 177
Memory at dfbfd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

Do I need to enable it somehow ?

Any ideas appreciated. . .

[Iron_Mike]

You need to grab the 3.0 firmware from here http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php and unarchive it and copy the files your your /lib/firmware directory and reboot the computer...Then try it....

[poor_student]

Hello,

thew 3.0 firmware is installed in /lib/firmware/. Everything was working yesterday. Wireless stopped working, so I deleted the connection with neat, then when I went to create a new wireless connection ipw2200 is in ethernet section .. .

Thanks

[Iron_Mike]

How did you install the firmware? Did you just copy the files into /lib/firmware directory or did you use yum to install the firmware?? Check your /var/log/dmesg file and look to see if there is a firmware load error, if it is loading properly the entry will look like this:

ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.4kmprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
ipw2200: Detected geography ZZA (11 802.11bg channels, 13 802.11a channels)

[poor_student]

It's definitely not getting loaded properly, here is pertinent output of dmesg . . .
[root@fermi]# dmesg | grep ipw
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0dmprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: Unable to load ucode: -22
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -22
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5
[root@fermi]#

Dunno what is going on.
Similar problems in this thread
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=143837

[Iron_Mike]

You have the incorrect version of the firmware. Until the correct version of firmware is installed, it will show up as an ethernet device. Double check to actually see if the firmware is installed....

[poor_student]

Wireless works again somehow. The correct version of the firmware was definitely installed correctly, I'm not sure what the issue was. I did a yum update, and now everything appears back to normal. I did find this blog by someone who had similar issued, and UDEV was at fault. Who knows, it might crap out again, and I'll be back to post some more. Thanks for the suggestions.

http://www.openthought.org/blosxom.cgi/2006/02/13