On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:22:13 +0200, oneman wrote: > On 18-jul-2008, at 6:22, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:59:45AM +0200, oneman wrote: >>> I've got a Dell Latitude D810 and I tried to get the wireless to >>> work. I >>> installed the ipw2200 driver, but get an error in dsmesg: >>> >>> dull:/home/oneman# dmesg | grep ipw >>> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0mq >>> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation >>> ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection >>> ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2 >>> ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2 >>> ipw2200: failed to register network device >>> ipw2200: probe of 0000:03:03.0 failed with error -5 >>> >>> >>> Does this mean the card is broken or is there anything I can do to >>> get it >>> loaded? >> >> which version of debian? I believe you need the firmware which is >> likely in non-free. enable the non-free repos in /etc/apt/sources.list >> and then do an aptitude update and search for firmware. >> > > I'm running Etch. The drivers were in non-free if I remember well. > > I did install the driver, and it looked to me as these entries in dmesg > show the driver being loaded, and failing. But maybe I'm misreading it > and > is this just the device being detected? Is there a way to check wich > modules > are actually loaded? I looked at modprobe but that only seems tot list > available drivers on disk with 'modprobe -l'.
You can find the firmware here: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php You will have to accept a license agreement to download the firmware; your driver needs the newest available version (v3). After you have downloaded the compressed tar archive, extract the files and put them into the /lib/firmware directory. Then modprobe the ipw2200 module again and check with dmesg if everything is OK now; watch out for messages about problems with the RF kill switch. (If the driver cannot find the firmware in /lib/firmware, try /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware instead.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
