Intel pro/wireless 2200BG not working

[Maverick-23feb]

Hello Friends,

I have a Acer laptop with Intel pro/wireless 2200BG device. The device is not working. My hardware browser displays this correctly. But, when I restart the network it gives me

# service network restart
Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Setting network parameters: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth1: cannot change name of lo to eth1: Device or resource busy
cannot parse MAC ` lo eth1' at argument 2
cannot parse MAC ` lo eth1' at argument 2
Device eth1 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring.

cannot change name of lo to eth1: Device or resource busy [FAILED]

My system ...
# uname --all
Linux Lap 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 #1 Fri Oct 21 03:46:55 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

My hardware configuration file for wireless device (/etc/sysconfig/hwconf) is as below

class: NETWORK
bus: PCI
detached: 0
device: eth1
driver: ipw2200
desc: "Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG"
network.hwaddr: 00:12:F0:65:90:C3
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 4220
subVendorId: 8086
subDeviceId: 2701
pciType: 1
pcidom: 0
pcibus: 1
pcidev: 2
pcifn: 0

My /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-eth1 is below

IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.1.200
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00
BOOTPROTO=none
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=192.168.1.167
DOMAIN=
ESSID=
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Auto
RATE=0kb/s

My /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 is below

IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.1.200
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00
BOOTPROTO=none
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=192.168.1.167
DOMAIN=
ESSID=
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Auto
RATE=0kb/s

Any ideas on how to solve this problems???

[nave7693]

You probably do not have the firmware installed. Get it from ipw2200.sf.net if you have not.

[Maverick-23feb]

I think I did
# rpm -qa |grep ipw2200
ipw2200-firmware-2.2-5.at

[nave7693]

try changing the MACs manually so they match... might still not work though... try modprobe ipw2200 and look for debug outputs.

[Maverick-23feb]

it gives me no output at all. Is a wrong version of firmware installed? How do I confirm this?