SuSE 10.0 + Intel 2200BG wireless = problem

Hi Markus,

Yes, indeed. Actuall, it's an Amilo Pro V2000D

Actually, I had to change ipw2100 to ipw2200 in Makefile and *.c. I
have a feeling, I achieved some progress, but my eth1 still does not
obtain DHCP address. :(

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This is a switch which disables the radio of the wireless card.

Is this a Amilo series notebook ?
Then you might need an additional fsam7400 module to switch off that kill
switch. Have a look at the Archlinux Wiki
(#) to get
an idea, what to do.
PS:

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Thanks.

I got some errors during compilation phase... probably need some
headers or module sources to be installed. I'll check it later though
and will let you know.

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Hi,

Of course.

# lsmod | grep 2200
ipw2200 171656 0
ieee80211 51140 1 ipw2200
firmware_class 9856 2 pcmcia,ipw2200

eth1 device: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
eth1 configuration: wlan-id-00:0e:35:34:3f:1d
eth1 Startmode is 'manual'

Oh... there is something interesting, though I'm unable to interpret it:

Nov 2 19:10:35 laptop-jstozek kernel: ipw2200: module not supported by
Novell, setting U taint flag.
Nov 2 19:10:35 laptop-jstozek kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless
2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
Nov 2 19:10:35 laptop-jstozek kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel
Corporation
Nov 2 19:10:35 laptop-jstozek kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless
2200BG Network Connection
Nov 2 19:10:35 laptop-jstozek kernel: ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch
is On:
Nov 2 19:10:35 laptop-jstozek kernel: Kill switch must be turned off for
wireless networking to work.

What the h*ll is this kill switch?

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Hi,

eth0 is a 10/100 built-in Ethernet interface
- it works, of course
- set up with ifplugd (being turned on, when cable is plugged in)

eth1 is a built-in Intel WLAN interface
- I cannot make work
- it does not associate with an AP
- it does not obtain DHCP address
- set up for manual start
- I have no external means to check, if the radio gets turned on
- It works under WXP, so at least it's not a hardware problem.

eth2 is a pluggable (PCMCIA) Cisco/Aironet WLAN card
- it does work
- set up as hot-pluggable
- it does not set up a default route for some reason

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Jan, I had a similar problem to yours, and had to install the drivers
for the wireless card. I wrote detailed instructions on how I did it
here:
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Hopefully you'll have the same luck!

Jan Stozek schrieb:

That's a good point to start. Well, I did not doubt that the hardware is
no working ...

Hmm, maybe I'm lucky because it took a little longer with SuSE 9.3
(where I had to "play" with various options until it was running ...)

For the SuSE 10.0 instllation I did it straight forward:

(1) Do the basic installation with the LAN port (leaving the WLAN port
untouched)

(2) By using YaST I set up the WLAN port *completely* with all the
router/AP parameters required (without using any other tool like
kwifimanager, kinternet, etc.).

Maybe that's the point because after setting up the WLAN port hardware
you will be prompted for the router/AP parameters (like ESSID, WEP or
WPA parameters, etc.,.

Maybe you should start it another time ...
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Best regards,
Reinhard.

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:45:17 +0200, Jan Stozek took a five minute break
from flipping burgers at the local fast food joint and scribbled on an
etch-a-sketch:

Me, too. (Dell notebook.)

Here's what I found on 10 - which was different from installing 9.3 - The
WLAN worked like a charm during installation. Oddly enough, the built-in
ethernet did not originally work. After install, both worked fine.

I did nothing other than check to make sure DHCP was set on both interfaces

Which port is your wlan? eth1 or eth0?

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k

A ASUS M6882NEWP with that Interface works fine for me.
Is ipw-firmware-5-6.noarch.rpm installed ?
What says lsmod about the driver module ?
Are there any messages from the driver in /var/log/boot.msg
and/or /var/log/messages ?

Can't remember how I set it up in 10.0. It was easy though. I'm just
running WEP right now. I have other wireless devices that will only
do WEP. With SUSE 9.3 I remember I had to enter my WEP key (hex) into
the /etc/syconfig/... file directly. YaST wouldn't do it for me for
some strange reason. I think all of that worked fine in 10, regardless,
editing the file wasn't difficult.

Reinhard Gimbel zmarszczy?? si??, zamy??li?? i w wiadomo??ci z sobota, 29
pa??dziernika 2005 17:13 napisa??:

It means that at least some of the programs do work, at least some
times... :)

I'm also sure that the hardware works - I have wxp installed on the
same laptop, and its wlan works with my AP.

It's tough to answer, since I was trying and guessig and googling
with it for a number of hours yesterday and today.

It was a clean install. YAST discovered a hardware and loaded a
rexpective module during install. Then it allowed me to configure the
interface in YaST along with an Ethernet interface - I set it up for
a manual start, and the Ethernet for hot-plug, which works cleanly
btw. Then I turned my AP on and tried to run the wlan with kinternet,
but it did not work - it showed 0% signal. Then I started playing
with various parametres; first with gui, and after some time - I
discovered iwconfig and tried to turn it on using cli utils.

I have not yet. I'm still looking for hints. :)

Thanks.

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Hi all !

Yes, me ...

My notebook has got the same WLAN interface. This worked with SuSE 9.3
pro and it works also with SuSE 10.0 right now.

Question is: What did you do exactly ? Did you use the upgrade option of
SuSE 10.0 ? Or did you do a clean installation of SuSE 10.0 ?

What I did after an installation from scratch was to leave the WLAN port
disabled until all the installation was completed (incl. 1st run of
YOU). After that I enabled the WLAN port. The system is running without
any problem since then ...
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Best regards,
Reinhard.

In article <dd8c5$43638624$540a12d5$>,
Jan Stozek <> wrote:

My IBM Thinkpad has the same wireless card. I didn't do anything
special to configure and use it under SUSE 9.3 and SUSE 10.0. I don't
know how to help you but my advice is: don't give up.

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