Intel Wireless PRO 2200bg fc6 problem

fredikk · #1 4th February 2007, 04:16 PM

I have a laptop with Intel wireless Pro 2200bg wich I cannot get it to work. My kernel is:2.6.19-1.2895.fc6
So, I read somewhere that the driver is included somehow in the kernel so no install is required, I installed the firmware through yum and then I tried to install that ieee80211 thing which I do not know what it is since I am new to linux and actually most of the things I've tried don't know exactly what they do. Anyway trying to install the ieee80211 I get several errors that something is missing I suppose...:

[root@ab3f849eb5e24f8 ieee80211-1.2.16]# make
Checking in /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 for ieee80211 components...
find: /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/build/: No such file or directory
egrep: /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/build//.config: No such file or directory
egrep: /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/build//include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
find: /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/build/: No such file or directory
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/build M=/home/fredikk/Desktop/ieee80211-1.2.16 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2

So, I don't even know if these are the steps needed to make it work since it is not very clear to me how this works(actually I do not understand what this ieee80211 is)
another thing is that when I try to load the ipw2200 module I get:

[root@ab3f849eb5e24f8 ieee80211-1.2.16]# /sbin/modprobe ipw2200
WARNING: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko': No such file or directory
WARNING: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211.ko': No such file or directory
FATAL: Error inserting ipw2200 (/lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

Later though, I read somewhere else that the ieee is also included in the kernel, so I hope I havent corrupted it by overwritting it...So if someone could help me would be very appreciated since I am trying to make it work for weeks now but nothing found on several forums helped! thank you.

wipeout · #2 4th February 2007, 05:37 PM

Yes, the only package you need for IPW 2200 is ipw2200-firmware-3.0-1.lvn6. It might just be that you have messed something up while trying to make it work using other methods. Maybe you should try installing an older kernel, then removing the newest kernel and then reinstalling the newest kernel to fix things. Maybe someone has a better idea, but this is what comes to my mind.