Problem with ipw2200 driver on interface

I have an Intel Centrino chip and instead of the PCMCIA wireless card I was
previously using, I decided to give the IPW2200 driver a spin.

Installed ieee802111 and then ipw2200. I have hotplug firmware support in
the kernel (2.6.12.3).

I have the following line in my /etc/modules.conf :

alias eth1 ipw2200

In /etc/dhclient.conf :

interface "eth1" {
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name;
require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
script "/etc/dhclient-script";
}

lsmod :

ipw2200 185096 0
firmware_class 11392 1 ipw2200
ieee80211 50692 1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt 7624 2 ipw2200,ieee80211

An attempt to bring up eth1 fails :

#ifup eth1
Continuing at if-pre-up
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Listening on LPF/eth0/<obfuscated hardware address for my eth0 - Intel
Pro+100 card>
<Above line repeated>
Bind socket to interface: No such device
exiting.
Failed to bring up eth1.

dmesg | grep "ipw" :

# dmesg | grep "ipw"
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation

What am I missing ?

Btw., what is the difference between ipw2200 and ipw2100 drivers ?

Thanks.

Madhusudan Singh wrote:

> I have an Intel Centrino chip and instead of the PCMCIA wireless card I
> was previously using, I decided to give the IPW2200 driver a spin.
>
> Installed ieee802111 and then ipw2200. I have hotplug firmware support in
> the kernel (2.6.12.3).
>
> I have the following line in my /etc/modules.conf :
>
> alias eth1 ipw2200
>
> In /etc/dhclient.conf :
>
> interface "eth1" {
> request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
> domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name;
> require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
> script "/etc/dhclient-script";
> }
>
> lsmod :
>
> ipw2200 185096 0
> firmware_class 11392 1 ipw2200
> ieee80211 50692 1 ipw2200
> ieee80211_crypt 7624 2 ipw2200,ieee80211
>
> An attempt to bring up eth1 fails :
>
> #ifup eth1
> Continuing at if-pre-up
> Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
> Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
>
> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
>
> eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> Listening on LPF/eth0/<obfuscated hardware address for my eth0 - Intel
> Pro+100 card>
> <Above line repeated>
> Bind socket to interface: No such device
> exiting.
> Failed to bring up eth1.
>
> dmesg | grep "ipw" :
>
> # dmesg | grep "ipw"
> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
>
> What am I missing ?
>
> Btw., what is the difference between ipw2200 and ipw2100 drivers ?
>
> Thanks.

Just downloaded and installed ipw2100. Same result.(Everything else I wrote
above for ipw2200 applies).

# dmesg | grep "ipw"
ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 1.1.2
ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation

[Madhusudan Singh]
> # dmesg | grep "ipw"
> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation

> What am I missing ?

I had problems with my ipw2200 due to a software controlled "Radio
Kill Switch". This was governed by the BIOS and has nothing to do
with ipw2200 per se. The problem was solved by activating the card
using the "acerhk" kernel modules (even if I don't have an acer).
Other laptops may need the "rfswitch" package.

However, I'm pretty sure I got some hints about it in the dmesg, so
this probably doesn't apply to you.

--
Tobias Brox

Tobias Brox wrote:

> [Madhusudan Singh]
>> # dmesg | grep "ipw"
>> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
>> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
>
>> What am I missing ?
>
> I had problems with my ipw2200 due to a software controlled "Radio
> Kill Switch". This was governed by the BIOS and has nothing to do
> with ipw2200 per se. The problem was solved by activating the card
> using the "acerhk" kernel modules (even if I don't have an acer).
> Other laptops may need the "rfswitch" package.
>
> However, I'm pretty sure I got some hints about it in the dmesg, so
> this probably doesn't apply to you.
>

Hi

I realized that I had not installed the firmware. So, I installed it
to /usr/local/lib/firmware

(My /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent contains :


FIRMWARE_DIRS="/lib/firmware /usr/local/lib/firmware /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware")

Rebooted. I still cannot get it to detect the wireless card in the centrino.

I am beginning to wonder if my CPU even is what I think it is :

cat /proc/cpuinfo :

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 9
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 1394.666
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe est tm2
bogomips : 2768.89


-------------------------
lspci o/p :

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Memory I/O
Control Registers (rev 02)
0000:00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Configuration
Process Registers (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated
Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics
Device (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0
EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 83)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev
03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage
Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus
Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97
Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller
0000:01:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev 80)
0000:01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BD PRO/100 VE (CNR)
Ethernet Controller (rev 83)

Tobias Brox <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>[Madhusudan Singh]
>> # dmesg | grep "ipw"
>> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
>> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation

Note -- do NOT rely on grep. Go into dmesg (dmesg|less) and go to where it
talks about ipw2200 and read everything near that.


>> What am I missing ?

In comp.os.linux.misc Madhusudan Singh <spammers-go-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> An attempt to bring up eth1 fails :

By now I got a thinkpad T43, and I experience exactly the same as you;
the driver loads without problems, but can't find any device at eth1.
A friend of me hinted that the device may be named ath0, but I had no
luck with that, either.

--
Tobias Brox

(E-Mail Removed) writes:

>In comp.os.linux.misc Madhusudan Singh <spammers-go-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> An attempt to bring up eth1 fails :

>By now I got a thinkpad T43, and I experience exactly the same as you;
>the driver loads without problems, but can't find any device at eth1.
>A friend of me hinted that the device may be named ath0, but I had no
>luck with that, either.

iwconfig -a
will list all interfaces as will
ifconfig -a

Look in dmesg and in /var/log/messages to see if the loading of ipw2200 had
problems.

[Unruh]
>>By now I got a thinkpad T43, and I experience exactly the same as you;
>>the driver loads without problems, but can't find any device at eth1.
>>A friend of me hinted that the device may be named ath0, but I had no
>>luck with that, either.

> iwconfig -a
> will list all interfaces as will
> ifconfig -a

> Look in dmesg and in /var/log/messages to see if the loading of ipw2200 had
> problems.

Well, problem solved in my case; I did a simple 'lspci' and discovered
I had atheros, not ipw2200. Weird though, it was told to be ipw2200,
and almost all references to T43 at the net hints about ipw2200.

But - the ipw2200-driver loaded without complaining! Let's try again:

ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.0.3
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <(E-Mail Removed)>
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation

well, the "registered algorithm NULL"-part looks suspicious, but not a
word that I don't have an ipw2200 in the computer ...

--
Tobias Brox

Tobias Brox wrote:
>
> Well, problem solved in my case; I did a simple 'lspci' and discovered
> I had atheros, not ipw2200. Weird though, it was told to be ipw2200,
> and almost all references to T43 at the net hints about ipw2200.
>
> But - the ipw2200-driver loaded without complaining!

That's standard practice on 2.6.x kernels---drivers load silently
whether the hardware is there or not. I guess it makes sense in some
cases where devices could be hotplugged, but it also causes a lot of
confusion for those of us used to the old-style error messages.