Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

[explosive]

Hi,

I just installed Fedora (Core 3) for the first time today :)

Im trying to get my Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG card working.

Im using ipw2200-0.19 with 0.19 firmware.
Ive installed it and everything appears to be working, ive put in all my network settings using the "Network" program in Fedora.

When i press activate it says it has connected but i am unable to connect to any websites. :(

also iwconfig command doesn't work.


Any ideas what to do?

Thanks

[RoiDanton]

Hi,

I just installed Fedora (Core 3) for the first time today :)

Im trying to get my Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG card working.

Im using ipw2200-0.19 with 0.19 firmware.
Ive installed it and everything appears to be working, ive put in all my network settings using the "Network" program in Fedora.

When i press activate it says it has connected but i am unable to connect to any websites. :(

also iwconfig command doesn't work.


Any ideas what to do?

Thanks

Hi!

I’d the same problem with my hp nx5000.
It looks like there is a problem with the location of the firmware files. (dmesg |grep ipw) should tell you that the firmware is missing.
The hotplug daemon looks in /lib/firmware for the firmware files but the ipw driver looks in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware .
It is somehow possible to compile the ipw driver to look in /lib/firmware for the files but it’s much easier to link the files from /lib/firmware to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.
After restarting the device a dmesg | grep ipw returns without a problem.
Now iwconfig works as it should :)

Greets,

Roi Danton

[explosive]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

im quite new to linux so im not sure how to " link the files from /lib/firmware to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware." How do I do this?


Thanks :)

[RoiDanton]

Hi,
that’s not a real problem :)
Go to the directory where do you want to link the files to.
If you have the fw files at /lib/firmware then go to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
Then enter
ln -s /lib/firmware/iwpxxx.fw
You have to do this for every file. You can also work with wildcards if you like.
ln creates the link. -s means symbolic link. You can see with ls -al where the link is pointing to.
Without the -s it creates a real link witch means it creates a second inode entry for the file in the file system. If you delete such a link, the file will be deleted from the file system. If you delete a symbolic link it has no effect to the real file.

I hope this works.

Roi Danton

[explosive]

Thanks for the help! :)

Ive managed to get it working. (Posted this messge from Fedora :D )

[pEEnut206]

ok. first things first, you're reading a newb's post.
second things second, this newb is running fc3 on a dell 700m using the same intel 2200 piece talked about in this thread.

ive spent a lot of time trying to get the damn thing to work (searching this forum and various others, trying diffent angles of approach and such) but after so much tinkering i still cant get the internet.....

i bought an asante wifi router thinking it'd be awesome to have my own wifi network (instead of loafing) but when i went to hook that up in my apartment all three connected (wired) desktops flipped out constantly beeping saying there was all kinds of crazy IP errors with those annoying little speech-bubbles popping up again and again.....wish i knew why, and how to fix this....

i suppose i should get back on topic - bottom line is that i cant get the internet on my laptop to work (with or without wep)- my uneducated-guess is that this has SOMETHING to do with the fact that iwconfig, ifconfig, or any other of the wifi tools i've installed via rpm.....i dont understand and i was VERY surprised to realize that even tho the instructions in this thread seemed very pertinant to my situation, it didnt change the result of typing iwconfig into the command line under root. i ran the dmesg | grep command and it reported back just fine stating i was using driver 1.0.0 but it didnt mention firmware ...dunno why. if you have any ideas or suggestions as to what i should do to get the internet working on my new linux box.......they would be greatly appreciated.
thanks a alot
-pat

[jim]

I wrote a how to back in jan
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/jim_lawrence/wireless/
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/jim_lawrence/securewireless/
and see
http://www.fedorajim.homelinux.com/pages/router-set-up.html#LinuxPC

[NOCBOX]

Everything on my system seems to be working fine but when i activate eth1 i get this error

Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.

Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present. Check cable?

[jim]

type NetworkManagerInfo if you use gnome in the terminal

[NOCBOX]

I can lunch network manger but i get anything on networkmanagerinfo

and in networkmanager it will not connect to my AP just keeps saying cant be found

[jim]

did you try adding a New network ?

[NOCBOX]

I think i got one to work now i get this

Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

[jim]

What type of encryption are you using in your router WEP WPA

If its WEP make sure you are using a asci type key in the networkmanagerinfo dialog window
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/jim_lawrence/network_manager/

[NOCBOX]

After having many other problem's i got pissed off and reinstaled i followed your howto on you website and everthing seems to be working just fine thanks a lot for you help

[NOCBOX]

anybody know of a good wifi sniffer something like netstumbler

[logan5]

NOCBOX - anybody know of a good wifi sniffer something like netstumbler

Take a look (do a google search for ) Kismet , Aircrack and Airsnort. They work very well if you have a supported card and driver. The driver needs to be able to enable monitor mode for the card. The kismet site has a good list in the install documentation section.

By the way, you can get all three of these using Yum and the fedorafaq's yum.conf for sources.

[NOCBOX]

Very strange things happing today when i try to start networkmanger i can not connect the funny thing is that at a command propt all of the commands dont work if i type iwconfig or ifup iw list i get the error command not found any ideas

[pEEnut206]

try goin into the root folder in superuser mode and type " sbin/iwconfig eth0 " this is the only way i can get it to work- i still dont really understand entirley why i guess my path isnt complete, but yea, hope it works.

[AndyGreen]

Get to root by

su -

the - is important.

[jim]

See my page
http://www.fedorajim.homelinux.com/

there are afew things there you mightg find interesting

[deborahgsmith]

Jim!

I was going to send you an email - but wanted to instead thank you publicly for your instructions at:

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/jim_lawrence/securewireless/

I am now wireless and up and running with my Dell 6000 Inspiron and Linksys Intel Pro 2200BG.

Followed your instructions to the letter and it worked for me first time. I did have to reboot and type the command line in and use the network config box to get it to work - but it was flawless!

Well done! Thank you so much Jim! You ROCK!

Best,

Deborah Smith

[jim]

Try to use Network Manager It makes life much easier
As root ( su - )
chkconfig NetworkManager on
then
service NetworkManager start

exit out of root
then type
NetworkManagerInfo

You should see the sweeping radar click it and add a new network. Type in your network details (network name, WEP key if used) and click connect.
YOu may have to reboot again

then check the settings in gconf-editor
click /system/networking/wireless/networks/ And look for your network info.

Make sure you click the little box as you log out to save the settings as they are. This way NetworkManagerInfo runs when you log in and you get connected faster !


Enjoy and Thanks for Thanks!

[deborahgsmith]

Got it. Works too!

Thanks Jim.

:)

Your site has lots of useful information and I am combing through it now. I wont be a n00b for long.

Deborah