Hi, > I just bought a new laptop and I'm running Ubuntu 5.10 on it with the > latest kernel 2.6.14.2. The laptop is a MSI megabook s260 with the > centrino plattform and a Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG (rev 05) wlan card. > My computer detects the card just fine, but it loads the wrong firmware. > I get this when i boot the computer up: > > /ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2 > ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE > / > So, I thought that it would work fine if I just installed a new firmware > (ipw-2.3) and placed it in /lib/hotplug/firmware/ but the 2.3-firmware > obiously doesn't load.
Kernel 2.6.14 includes an old version (1.0.0) of the ipw2200 driver that searches for the 2.2 version of the firmware. Either use the external module or 2.6.15-rc2 if you want a new version of the driver (and WPA-PSK encryption for example). > So my question is; where should i put the firmware so that hotplug can > load it properly? I put it in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ as said in the installation guide[1] and it works ok (I use Debian). Check your hotplug scripts. But anyway, doesn't ubuntu 5.10 support this wireless card out of the box? A friend of mine told me he had Wifi connectivity during the installation process... [1] http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/INSTALL section 10
